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step over

Speech parts

1. step over - Noun

2. step over - Verb

Meaning

step over (plural step overs)

(soccer) A dribbling move, or feint, in football (soccer), used to fool a defensive player into thinking the offensive player, in possession of the ball, in which the foot is moved over the ball without making contact with it.

(intransitive, idiomatic) To relocate oneself to a position of a few steps away; step aside.

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see step,‎ over.

Source: en.wiktionary.org

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step-over

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And perhaps in this is the whole difference; perhaps all the wisdom, and all truth, and all sincerity, are just compressed into that inappreciable moment of time in which we step over the threshold of the invisible. Joseph Conrad

I always tell my kids if you lay down, people will step over you. But if you keep scrambling, if you keep going, someone will always, always give you a hand. Always. But you gotta keep dancing, you gotta keep your feet moving. Morgan Freeman

I don't look to jump over 7-foot bars: I look around for 1-foot bars that I can step over. Warren Buffett

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough. Elton John

Never step over one duty to perform another. English Proverb

Don't step over a grave or you will soon die. Bajan Proverb

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