Outrageously Funny Word Dictionary :: All over

👉 Okay, let’s tackle the wonderfully weird and deceptively complex little pixie-astrophe of a word: 

"All Over."

Now, when most folks throw around the lad—you know, meaning something is covered entirely by…stuff—they actually aren't quite right. It isn't just about a uniform blanket of coverage, no! Let me be delightfully clear. Essentially, "All Over," in its full, throbbing potential, describes a state that’s neither perfectly even, nor precisely defined, but rather…a glorious, chaotic assertion of having been everywhere within the specified area . It's the beige of the English language—beige because it appears so frequently, and therefore, we rarely actually think about what we mean when we say it! You could picture a very small, slightly hysterical badger that has enthusiastically decided to plaster itself in every available nook. That’s, essentially, the feeling of "All Over." Here's what I mean by this is an imprecise measurement. It isn't like a paint swatch saying “Exactly 100% coverage here! ” Instead it acknowledges that there are areas with slightly more or less of the thing we have in mind. You wouldn’t say, you know, the wall was all over with red paint. Rather the wall has, on the whole and by the sheer force of its own will, a lot of red on it.