"all over the place" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [英语]

Audio: en-au-all over the place.ogg
  1. 到处,四处 Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: zh-all_over_the_place-en-prep_phrase-1O4ZbkOi Categories (other): 英語俗語
  2. 乱七八糟,前后矛盾;胡乱,随意;前言不搭后语 Tags: idiomatic
    Sense id: zh-all_over_the_place-en-prep_phrase-HC4bdXn7 Categories (other): 英語俗語
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (乱七八糟,前后矛盾;胡乱,随意;前言不搭后语): at random Synonyms (到处): all over hell's half acre; all over the shop; all over the gaff; all over the map; all over the board; here, there and everywhere; up hill and down dale Synonyms (到处,四处): scattershot
Categories (other): 英語介詞短語, 英語詞元

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        {
          "text": "They started firing all over the place.",
          "translation": "他们开始到处开火。"
        },
        {
          "text": "In Genoa there are stray cats all over the place.",
          "translation": "热那亚到处都是野猫。"
        },
        {
          "text": "I've been looking for you all over the place.",
          "translation": "我在到处找你。"
        },
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          "ref": "2004, Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation, Penguin, →ISBN,頁號 267:",
          "text": "I couldn't believe it. “This is insane! 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.”"
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        {
          "text": "I asked each person in turn, and their answers were all over the place.",
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        }
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      "sense": "到处,四处",
      "word": "scattershot"
    },
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      "sense": "到处",
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    }
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          "text": "They started firing all over the place.",
          "translation": "他们开始到处开火。"
        },
        {
          "text": "In Genoa there are stray cats all over the place.",
          "translation": "热那亚到处都是野猫。"
        },
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          "text": "I've been looking for you all over the place.",
          "translation": "我在到处找你。"
        },
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          "ref": "2004, Ruth Ozeki, All Over Creation, Penguin, →ISBN,頁號 267:",
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          "text": "I asked each person in turn, and their answers were all over the place.",
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        }
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      "word": "scattershot"
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      "sense": "到处",
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