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▪ I. all-over, adj. phr.
[f. prec.]
1. colloq. Indisposed all over or all through the body, generally ill.
1851Mayhew Lond. Lab. III. 146 It gives you an all-over sort of feeling.
2. a. Covering every part, esp. of ornamental patterns or designs (see quot. 1893).
1859C. Tomlinson Illustr. Useful Arts 39/2 The patterns of floor-cloths should not be elaborate... What are called all-over patterns..have the best effect. 1893Jrnl. Soc. Arts XLI. 372/2 A common cry now is, that what is termed an ‘all-over’ treatment is best; that is, the areas of the details of the design should be nearly all equal, so that no feature should obtrude itself in the design. 1916Hamlin Hist. Ornament i. 5 In ‘all-over’ patterns the units are arranged along two or more intersecting systems of lines so as to cover a broad surface. 1932Times Lit. Suppl. 7 July 493/1 Hazlitt's ‘Conversations of Northcote’..may be met with in at least six ‘original’ bindings, ranging from all-over boards with label, through half-cloth and full-cloth. 1960B. Robertson Jackson Pollock 45 The significance of Pollock's late, all-over style, is not only aesthetic.
b. As n. (See quots.)
1838Penny Cycl. XI. 220/1 The amalgam for this description of work [i.e. the gilding of buttons] is brought to a much stiffer consistence than that which is used for ‘all-overs’. 1916Hamlin Hist. Ornament i. 5 Continuous ‘all-overs’ forming a mesh of two sets of intersecting lines are called quarries. 1957M. B. Picken Fashion Dict. 6/1 All-over,..fabric completely covered with a design, such as lace.
3. = over-all adj. phr.
1933Irish Press 27 Jan. 6/2 The Irish people have answered...They have given Fianna Fáil its all-over majority. 1959N. & Q. CCIV. 45/2 His all-over conclusion is that [etc.].
▪ II. all-over, n.
[f. the adj. phr.]
1. See all-over adj. phr. 2.
2. the all-overs (colloq., chiefly U.S.), a feeling of nervousness or unease (occas. of annoyance), as if affecting the subject from head to foot. Cf. sense 1 of the adj. phr.
1870Dickens E. Drood xxiii. 180 But we're out of sorts for want of a smoke. We've got the all-overs, haven't us, deary? But this is the place to cure 'em in; this is the place where the all-overs is smoked off! 1888‘O. Thanet’ in St. Nicholas Nov. 50/1, I jes' take the all-overs every time I see paw getherin' his gun ter go out. 1893H. A. Shands Some Peculiarities of Speech in Mississippi 70 All-overs, a term employed by all classes to mean a feeling of extreme annoyance or vexation; as, ‘That man is so trifling it gives me the all-overs to look at him.’ 1942M. K. Rawlings Cross Creek ix. 167, I came to Cross Creek with such a phobia against snakes that a picture of one in the dictionary gave me what Martha calls ‘the all-overs’. 1951L. Craig Singing Hills xxiii. 218 It gives me the all-overs to have a gun pointed in my ribs. |