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View definitions for fall over backwards

fall over backwards

verb as in bend over backwards

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One Rugby World Cup winner - Joel Stransky - said he would "fall over backwards" in shock if South Africa lose.

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You can never be 100% sure but I will fall over backwards if either South Africa or New Zealand lose in the semi-finals.

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"His wish was everyone's command, and people were literally falling over backwards just to please him," she adds.

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The Buffalo video shows a 75-year-old man approach police officers enforcing a curfew, who then move forward pushing him back, causing him to fall over backwards and hit his head.

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Half the time he jerked so hard that he fell over backwards.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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