walk all over
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Meaning · English
To treat someone badly or unfairly
Literally: physically walk on someone
Where it’s used:
Used
Widespread English
Examples
and they've got no alternative, otherwise we're gon na get walked all over.
What was worse, within minutes people would be walking all over her back - breaking work — it did not bear thinking of.
British National Corpus sentence via the MAGPIE corpus (CC BY 4.0, retrieved 2026-07-30)
Sources & notes
Listed in Wiktionary’s “English idioms” category (retrieved 2026-07-29); definition pending editorial review. Definition drafted by AI (@cf/meta/llama-3.3-70b-instruct-fp8-fast) and auto-approved by rule on 2026-07-31; pending editor spot-check.
Common questions
What does “walk all over” mean?
To treat someone badly or unfairly Literally: physically walk on someone
Is “walk all over” formal or informal?
No register label has been reviewed yet — treat it as neutral and check the usage notes above.