fall over one's feet
English
Verb
fall over one's feet (third-person singular simple present falls over one's feet, present participle falling over one's feet, simple past fell over one's feet, past participle fallen over one's feet)
- To hasten.
- Diana Wynne Jones, "The Master", in her own Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories, 2004 HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 55,
- "Show me the rest of the house," I said, to distract him. He fell over his feet to oblige.
- 2001, Elizabeth Peters, He Shall Thunder in the Sky, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 261,
- Supposing there is a scrap—wouldn't she wade right in, trying to help us, and wouldn't you fall over your own feet trying so get her out of it?
- 2004, Michael Morris, A Place Called Wiregrass, HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 69,
- "Luther fell over his feet trying to get away from there. He was so eat up with meanness the snakes wouldn't even touch him."
- Diana Wynne Jones, "The Master", in her own Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories, 2004 HarperCollins, →ISBN, page 55,
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