单词 | all over the lot |
释义 | > as lemmasall over the lot (a) U.S. colloquial. all over the lot: everywhere, in every direction; throughout an area; widely scattered; (hence figurative) in a disordered or aimless manner; lacking a clear focus or direction. Cf. all over the place at place n.1 Phrases 2e. ΚΠ 1806 Connecticut Evangelical Mag. Oct. 142 To see the lofty trees of the forest hewn down and piled in heaps all over the lot to be burnt. 1834 New-Hampsh. Statesman & State Jrnl. 20 Dec. After chasing the critter all over the lot, he knocked him in the head and at the same time knocked the breath out of his body. 1840 Boston Morning Post 2 Nov. Mr Reed..then rambled all over the lot in a most desultory, and discursive, and certainly incoherent style. 1890 Cedar Rapids (Iowa) Evening Gaz. 14 July 3/2 Dubuque only found Briggs for three safe hits, while Kennedy was hammered all over the lot, the home team making thirteen singles and three doubles off his delivery. 1939 A. G. Hays Democracy Works xi. 313 Your ideas are diverse and diffused and spread all over the lot. 1988 Sci. News 12 Mar. 173/2 ‘It's better to have pretty powerful computers all over the lot,’ he says, than to have a smaller number of large supercomputers that have to be shared by many individuals. 2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 11 Jan. a4 He's all over the lot on Iraq, he's all over the lot on Medicare, he's all over the lot on the Iowa caucuses. 2014 Gannett News Service (Nexis) 17 June If I start spraying it all over the lot and not hitting it that great, at least my short game is solid. < as lemmas |
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