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Verb: fall over backwards
Usage: informal
  1. Try very hard to please someone
    "She falls over backwards when she sees her mother-in-law";
    - bend over backwards [informal], lean over backwards [informal]

Derived forms: falls over backwards, falling over backwards, fell over backwards, fallen over backwards

Type of: act, behave, do

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fall in line
fall in love
fall into
fall into place
Fall of man
Fall of Man
fall off
fall open
fall out
fall over
fall over backwards
fall short
fall short of
fall through
fall to pieces
fall under
fall upon
fall webworm
Falla
fallacious
fallaciously