all over the shop
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[edit]Prepositional phrase
[edit]- (UK, Australia, informal) All over the place.
- 1823, Edmund Burke, “Chronicle, March 1822”, in The Annual Register, or a view of the history, politics, and literature, of the year 1822[1], volume 64, page 52:
- While witness was in the shop, a gentleman came running in, and retched all over the shop. He cried out to the boy, "What have you given me here?"
- 2019 September 26, “Dominic Cummings: delivering Brexit only way to solve abuse of MPs”, in The Guardian[2], →ISSN:
- When Cummings was asked if he blamed MPs for the abuse, he replied: “The MPs said we will have a referendum, we will respect the result and then they spent three years swerving all over the shop.