Crawl over
crawl over (something)
To climb over something on one's hands and knees. The baby crawled over the toys on the floor as if they weren't even there. I crawled over my husband's side of the bed to turn off the alarm clock. Climb over your sister and go sit in the back of the van. Go, go!
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Crawl over something
to cross over something by crawling. We crawled over the pile of boxes. Timmy crawled over the carpet and stood up at the coffee table.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
References in periodicals archive
India appeared to have squandered the advantage given by Zaheer when they lost makeshift opener Irfan Pathan and Suresh Raina in Kulasekara's opening spell, but managed to
crawl over the line.Sri Lanka captain Mahela Jayawardene was proud of his team's effort.
That is why India's target of 126 looked simple, but as soon as England bowled properly, it was a struggle for the home side to
crawl over the line, even when their score was 98 for three in the 19th over.
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