all over oneself

phrase

Feeling self-satisfied.

Meanings

phrase
  1. Feeling self-satisfied.

    Those women lite up they were so excited they were all over themselves we did it girls we made the King happy and Diane to.

    2013, Jesse S. Ward, My Lady and the Rogue, →ISBN
    3 more examples

    Then the Frogs surrounded this Rabbit, an' they re-captured the skull, an' the Rabbits charged with ambition, an' the Frogs passed to the left, an' there was old Leapin' Frog himself, grinnin' all over himself with his club reached out a-puntin' the skull along like sixty-seven.

    1939, Boys' Life - Jan 1939, page 25

    Anyway, the network tells me Ishaka is all over himself over his new baby, kissing and cuddling her and calling her every endearing name I didn't even know existed.

    2003, Mary Karooro Okurut, The Official Wife, →ISBN, page 81

    Nowadays, UGA recruiters would be all over themselves to enroll three high-achieving African American students like Kerry Rushin Miller, Harold A. Black and Mary Blackwell Diallo.

    2017 January 13, Lee Shearer, “UGA's first black freshmen — all three — recall what it was like”, in Athens Banner-Herald
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APA

all over oneself. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 5, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all%20over%20oneself

MLA

“all over oneself.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all%20over%20oneself. Accessed November 5, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “all over oneself,” accessed November 5, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/all%20over%20oneself.

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