7. (athletic).—Exhausted; said of a man or crew who, having exerted him
or themselves to the utmost, can do no more.
1886. Graphic, April 10, p. 392. Pitman the Cambridge stroke, after
passing the ‘Queen’s Head,’ Mortlake, put on a grand spurt, to
which his crew fairly responded, though pretty well all out.
All-Overish, adj. (colloquial). An indefinite feeling which pervades
the body at critical periods, when sickening for an illness, or at a
moment of supreme excitement, as when about to ‘pop the question’
which, says Hotten, ‘is sometimes called feeling all over alike, and
touching nowhere.’ Synonyms are ‘to feel all round one’s hat,’ and
‘chippy.’
1851. H. Mayhew, London Lab. and Lon. Poor, vol. III., p. 52. ‘When
the mob began to gather round, I felt all-overish.’
All-Overishness, subs. (colloquial).—The state of being
all-overish.—See foregoing.
1854. Ainsworth, Flitch of Bacon, pt. II., ch. v. ‘I feel a sort of
shivering and all-overishness.’
1841. John Mills, Old English Gentleman, ch. xxiv., p. 186 (3 ed.).
‘Isn’t it natural for a body to feel a sort of a queer
all-overishness on the eve of a wedding, I should like to know?’
All over Pattern, subs. phr. (common). Used in describing patterns that
are intricate, or designs in which the pattern is not of a set
character.
1881. F. E. Hulme. Suggestions in Floral Design. A term [all over
pattern] used to denote a design in which the whole of a field is
covered with ornament in contradistinction to such as have units
only at intervals, leaving spaces of the ground between them. The
ornament of the Moors as seen in the decorations of the Alhambra,
and that of Eastern nations generally, is most commonly of this
nature; the whole surface of the object is covered with decorative
forms so as to present to the eye a mass of elaborate detail, the
leading lines of which can often only be detected by careful
scrutiny. When, as in some Persian surfaces, these lines are often
quite lost, the result is unsatisfactory.
All Over the Shop, adv. phr. (common).—1. A phrase applied to any
ubiquitous person, thing or deed.—See Shop.
1883. G. R. Sims, Lifeboat, etc. (Awful Character). He kills little
babies all over the shop, each day in a river one thrown is.