| 词组 | trip over |
| 释义 | trip over 1. trip over sth • trip over to fall or nearly fall because you hit your foot against something on the ground: ▪ Apparently he'd tripped over a fallen branch, breaking his arm. ▪ Lilly lost her balance, tripped over and landed in a pile of leaves. ■ SIMILAR TO: ↑trip up, ↑fall over 2. trip over your words to make mistakes when you are speaking because you are nervous or excited, for example by not saying words clearly, or by repeating words: ▪ Simon continued his story, tripping over his words in his excitement. 3. be tripping over yourself/each other to do sth if people are tripping over themselves to do something, they are very eager to do it, especially when this seems very surprising: ▪ Suddenly everyone in Washington was tripping over themselves to praise Flynt. ■ SIMILAR TO: be falling over yourself |
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