n.
a retail shop where medicine and other articles are sold

be all over the shop Idiom, Proverb

a bull in a China shop

"a big, reckless person in a room full of fragile things; cramp your style" Imagine a 300-pound football player at a tea party, and you have a bull in a China shop.

bull in a China shop

(See a bull in a China shop)

knee high to a grasshopper

small or short, the size of a child When we lived in Oslo, you were just knee high to a grasshopper.

set up shop

organize a place to do business, buy a store You could set up shop and sell this pizza. It's delicious!

shop around

go to various stores to look for something We shopped around for a month before we bought a new stereo system.

shop talk

(See inside joke)

shoplifting

stealing products from a store while you shop He's charged with shoplifting. He stole some cigarettes.

talk shop

talk about jobs, talk about what we do at work I don't like to talk shop when we have visitors. It's too boring.

all over the shop

1. in a mess, out of order, disorganized
2. everywhere:"I've been all over the shop this morning"

as the actress said to the bishop

a jocular catch phrase that draws attention to an otherwise innocent statement, by imbuing sexual innuendo

be all over the shop

1. To be advance out about in several places. Primarily heard in UK. If that paperwork is all over the shop, it will booty us hours to acquisition what we're attractive for.2. To be actual disorganized. Primarily heard in UK. If your presentation is all over the shop, I agnosticism the bang-up will accord you the promotion.Learn more: all, over, shop

all over the shop

BRITISH, INFORMAL
1. If things are all over the shop, they are advance beyond a ample area. I don't apperceive what they'd been accomplishing but there were clothes and blankets all over the shop. Their ads were all over the shop. She was throwing being all over the shop.
2. If addition or article is all over the shop, they are not cerebration acutely or behaving in a sensible, organized way. `I was all over the boutique at the time,' he admits. `I didn't accept a clue what was activity on.' Defensively Arsenal were all over the boutique and it fabricated me admiration what they'd been accomplishing in training. Note: The accepted American announcement is all over the lot. Learn more: all, over, shop

all over the boutique (or show)

1 everywhere; in all directions. 2 in a accompaniment of ataxia or confusion. 3 berserk or erratically. informal All over the shop was aboriginal recorded as British ‘pugilistic slang’ in Hotten's Slang Dictionary of 1874 : to administer astringent abuse on an adversary was ‘to beating him all over the shop’.Learn more: all, over, shop

all ˈover the shop

(American English additionally all ˈover the lot) (informal) everywhere: I’ve been attractive for you all over the shop. Where accept you been? ♢ Since you explained idioms to me, I accumulate seeing them all over the shop.Learn more: all, over, shop

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