Something over

In that post yesterday, I was saying that for the writer (and others who use it) "skip over" functions like "look over (meaning appraise", "knock over (meaning rob), "push over", or "turn over". While for me, it's like "walk over".

Thinking about it today, I realized that there are many "verb over" constructions that are phrasal for me and hardly any that aren't. There are also some that can go either way, depending on what you mean. "Walk it over" means to bring something over by walking, "walk over it" means to walk on top of something. "Look it over" means to peruse it, "look over it" means to peer over the top. And so on.

So it might be considered somewhat odd that I have a problem with "skip it over" - but I think that the real problem is that this use of "skip him over" is not the one that I think it should be. I can understand the examples I cited (The Yanks skipped him over the Dominican Summer League and had him in Low-A Charleston as a teenager) , but not the ones like "the grouchy gene skipped him over".

But I'm not really sure I know any more!