Talk:all-over oneself
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"Feeling self-satisfied." I suspect the hyphen is wrong, but I can't easily find the phrase in either case. Equinox ◑ 06:51, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
- I can find this in a few dictionaries, and also in the following:
- 1999, West Straits, Kingdom Come, →ISBN, page 13:
- "Like the boy wonders were running the studios, and they were all over themselves wanting new, new.
- 2011 February 25, Kathryn Kalinak, “Best Original Score: What will win (and what *should* win)”, in OUPblog:
- I think Academy voters are going to be all over themselves to show how cool and hip and young they are by giving Reznor and Ross the edge.
- 2013, Jesse S. Ward, My Lady and the Rogue, →ISBN:
- Those women lite up they were so excited they were all over themselves we did it girls we made the King happy and Diane to.
- 2015 November 25, Evelyn, “Review: Fangirl – in which Rowell successfully unleash the fangirl in me”, in Books with Chemistry:
- She loves her twin despite all the petty disagreements that passed between them and she's completely all over herself when it comes to Levi who's simply the best guy a girl can ever ask for.
- I'm not sure the blogs count as durably archived, so it may not be enough. Kiwima (talk) 18:29, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
- OK, found a third book quote:
- 2003, Mary Karooro Okurut, The Official Wife, →ISBN, page 81:
- Anyway, the network tells me Ishaka is all over himself over his new baby, kissing and cuddling her and calling her every endearing name I didn't even know existed.
- Kiwima (talk) 18:42, 21 January 2017 (UTC)
- OK, found a third book quote:
- Like Equinox says, I doubt there should be a hyphen. DonnanZ (talk) 00:31, 22 January 2017 (UTC)
- Hyphen looks wrong to me too. Mihia (talk) 00:20, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
- Agreed. I suspect the hyphen is there because it appears that way in at least one dictionary. Kiwima (talk) 02:38, 23 January 2017 (UTC)
- Two of those ("Best Original Score" and "Kingdom Come") and don't seem to match the definition given - rather, they seem to be using as a synonym for (or malapropism of?) fall over oneself. Smurrayinchester (talk) 13:11, 26 January 2017 (UTC)
RFV-resolved : moved to remove the hyphen, sufficient cites now exist for non-hyphenated form. Kiwima (talk) 21:26, 11 May 2017 (UTC)