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OF course it would be easier to tell from context, but a guy I useta know in Chi town might have used such a phrase to contrast with someone else using the word "subvert", so he would have been implying the 'over' was kind of opposite to 'sub~'. In other words, accusing you of flying a distraction over the head of the *real subject. Just my WAG...




Maybe it's a regional usage. The post was made by someone from The Windy City.