all over the place
Prepositional phrase
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Prepositional phrase
- (idiomatic) In multiple directions or locations, often haphazardly; everywhere.
- Synonyms: scattershot
- They started firing all over the place.
- In Genoa there are stray cats all over the place.
- I've been looking for you all over the place.
- 2004, Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation, Penguin (ISBN 9781440650048), page 267 ↗:
- I couldn't believe it. “This is insanse! You don't know what you're getting into, Dad. We can't have lots of people swarming all over the place. You're supposed to be getting rest.”
- (idiomatic) Inconsistent; lacking a clear pattern; with a large amount of variation.
- Synonyms: at random
- I asked each person in turn, and their answers were all over the place.
- (everywhere) all over hell's half acre, all over the shop, all over the gaff, all over the map, all over the board, up hill and down dale
- French: dans tous les sens, en tous sens
- Russian: (direction) куда́ попа́ло
- German: durcheinander, chaotisch, uneinheitlich
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