fall over one's feet
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.23 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
16
Letters
2
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
verb
To hasten.
Example Sentences
- "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.""
Etymology
Inflected Forms
falls over one's feet (present, singular)
falling over one's feet (participle, present)
fell over one's feet (past)
fallen over one's feet (participle, past)