Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. as come (the)...over, to act in a given manner, defined by the inserted n.

1816		W.T. Moncrieff All at Coventry I ii: Yes, he’s coming the captain Queerman over me! and I must give him a smeller.
1825		C.M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I 178: What coming Tip-street over us, hey, Dick?
1850		‘Ned Buntline’ G’hals of N.Y. 131: Oh, yer can’t come no such shyster game as that over me.
c.1858		J.H. Green Reformed Gambler 146: Zounds! I will have my money back, Bill! You and Green can’t come a swindle over me like that.
1868		Brudder Bones’s Stump Speeches 37: You can’t come no more ob you highfanuden European monkey shines ober us now.
1871		E. Eggleston Hoosier School-Master (1892) 153: You don’t come no gum games over me with your saft sodder and all that.
1873		W.H. Thomes Slaver’s Adventures 176: I’m true as steel, but I ain’t going to have no games come over me by the old man.
1880		Henley & Stevenson Deacon Brodie II tab.IV viii: Don’t you get coming the nob over me, Mr. Deacon Brodie, or I’ll smash you.
1957		J. Braine Room at the Top (1959) 52: I thought you were coming the Lady of the Mansion over me, that’s all.

2. as come over all..., to experience certain emotions; usu. with various modifiers, e.g. come over all queer, suddenly to feel physically unwell.

2001

Guardian Sport 26 Mar. 12: I don’t want to come over all Michael Duberry here.

3. (Aus.) to accede to demands, to act as requested.

2023

A. Nette Orphan Road 40: [A] couple of bent cops were going to lean on Dad for the diamonds and [...] kill him if he didn’t come over.