walk all over

Idioms

Also, walk over. Treat contemptuously, be overbearing and inconsiderate to, as in I don't know why she puts up with the way he walks all over her or Don't let those aggressive people in sales walk over you. This idiom transfers physically treading on someone to trampling on one's feelings. [Second half of 1800s]

Example Sentences

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Take an absolutely exultant R&B track, then let a cat walk all over the punch-in triggers on the mix console.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 4, 2025

You either allow men to walk all over you and talk all over you, or you learn really quickly and very aggressively to stick up for yourself.

From BBC • Mar. 12, 2024

“Hopefully people are recognizing that you can’t just walk all over us.”

From Seattle Times • Oct. 8, 2023

It would allow people to believe we don't actually have to lay down and let evil men walk all over us.

From Salon • Aug. 4, 2022

I couldn’t let him walk all over me, but I couldn’t make him angry, either.

From "Made You Up" by Francesca Zappia

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