over there
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edit- Inthatplace;there (atsomedistance).
- You see that houseover there? That's where I used to live.
- 2008,BioWare,Mass Effect (Science Fiction), Redwood City: Electronic Arts,→ISBN,→OCLC, PC, scene: Noveria:
- Shepard: I'm looking for an asari.
Dr. Palon: Asari? Well, there's Dr. Iallisover there.
Dr. Palon: There's also our guest, Lady Benezia. Captain Ventralis might know where she is.
- Tothatplace;thither (atsomedistance).
- Let's headover there.
- (US,colloquial, originallymilitary)overseas toEurope (formilitaryengagement), especially to theWestern Front inFrance duringWorld War I
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editPseudo-anglicism, derived fromover there.
Adverb
edit- (colloquial) in theUnited States
- 1919, “Wilson i Metropolitan Opera House. En skildring från det märkliga ögonblicket.”, inSvenska Dagbladet[1], page 8:
- Efter att ha hört och läst all kritik […] kändes det ganska underligt, när han började med, att det första, han skulle tala om för demover there, ”was that an overwhelming majority of the American people is for the League of Nations.”
- After hearing and reading all the criticism […], it felt rather strange, when he started out by saying that the first thing he would tell themover there, "was that an overwhelming majority of the American people are for the League of Nations."
- 1942, Marianne Zetterström, “Viola: Direkt från U.S.A.”, inSvenska Dagbladet[2], page 8:
- Du och alla andra jäntor här […] se ut som månlandskap i ansiktet mot den minst observeradeover there, vad ni än gör med er.
- You and all the other girls here […] look like lunar landscapes in your faces compared to the least observedover there, whatever you do with yourselves.
- 2017, “Torsten Ordéus”, inUpsala Nya Tidning[3], archived fromthe original on28 December 2021:
- Tre gånger på 1960-talet skeppades inspelningsbussen, med Torsten vid ratten, över till USA, något som väckte stor uppmärksamhet, inte bara”over there”.
- The recording bus, with Torsten at the wheel, was shipped to the United States three times in the 1960s, which attracted a lot of attention, not just"over there".
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