fall all over

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   display excessive love or show excessive gratitude towards

   “This student falls all over her former professor when she sees him”

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Questions about fall all over

What does fall all over mean?

fall all over means "display excessive love or show excessive gratitude towards".

Is fall all over a common word?

fall all over is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.