all over the place
B2 put or left in a lot of different places in an untidy way:
There were dirty dishes and clothes all over the place.
in every place:
You can buy T-shirts like this all over the place.
informal not correct or suitable:
His drumming was all over the place.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Spreading and scattering
- bedaub
- bestrew
- billow
- circulate
- cross-contamination
- go round (somewhere)
- go/do the rounds idiom
- percolate
- radial
- radiate
- scatter
- slap
- spread
- spread out
- sprinkling
- straggle
- stretch
- strew
- suffuse
- sweep
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