Meaning of fall over one's feet | Babel Free

Definitions

To hasten.

Examples

“a. 1998, Diana Wynne Jones, "The Master", in her own Unexpected Magic: Collected Stories, HarperCollins, →ISBN (2003), page 55, "Show me the rest of the house," I said, to distract him. He fell over his feet to oblige.”

“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?”

“"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."”

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