all over, adverbial phrase

Colloquial. Everywhere. Hence as a noun phrase.
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Used as a noun phrase in U.S. English.
1937 [see garden sense 1].
1956 D. Jacobson Dance in Sun 7There were cars, we saw from the registration plates, from all over.
1979 Drum Jan. 28With spectacles and parted hairstyle Chief Patrick M— may look like a clerk, country teacher or preacher but..his government has spread fear all over.
1984 Frontline May 39The way the darkies actually speak is full of English and Afrikaans all over, not to mention tsotsi-taal.
1986 Weekly Mail 21 Nov. 2Just then a bottle and a rock landed beside us. The next moment the police were shooting all over.
1987 L. Coutts in E. Prov. Herald 22 Aug. 1There were bodies all over. A lot of the people were still trapped inside the bus.
Everywhere. Hence as a noun phrase.
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