topple over

English

Verb

topple over (third-person singular simple present topples over, present participle toppling over, simple past and past participle toppled over)

  1. (idiomatic) To fall over.
    • 2010 October 17, Hadley Freeman, “Tattoos: what makes one spiritual and another Katona-esque?”, in The Guardian:
      Moreover, some innocently untattooed people in the yoga class – who would otherwise be totally ace at balancing – find the light of self-satisfaction that radiates off their classmates' tattoos is so blinding they topple over.

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