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knock someone's socks off

knock someone's socks off verb: to impress greatly; amaze; stun.

Verb

knock someone's socks off (third-person singular simple present knocks someone's socks off, present participle knocking someone's socks off, simple past and past participle knocked someone's socks off)

  1. (idiomatic) To impress greatly; amaze; stun.
    • You wouldn't expect teenagers to sing opera, but these kids will knock your socks off.
    • But one of the enjoyable things of working around the railway is that no matter how well I think I know something or somewhere, there are always days when my socks are blown clean off.2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 46
    Synonyms:
    blow someone away, blow the socks off

Synonyms of knock someone's socks off

  • blow someone away
  • blow the socks off

Forms of knock someone's socks off

third-person singular presentknocks someone's socks off
present participleknocking someone's socks off
past participleknocked someone's socks off
pastknocked someone's socks off
alternative formblow someone's socks off

Questions about knock someone's socks off

What does knock someone's socks off mean?
Knock someone's socks off means to impress greatly; amaze; stun.
What part of speech is knock someone's socks off?
Knock someone's socks off is a verb.
What is the past tense of knock someone's socks off?
The past tense of knock someone's socks off is knocked someone's socks off.

Words near knock someone's socks off in the dictionary

  1. knock someone out of time
  2. knock someone over with a feather
  3. knock someone's block off
  4. knock someone's head off
  5. knock someone's lights out
  6. knock someone's socks off
  7. knock someone's wind out
  8. knock the ball out of the park
  9. knock the corners off
  10. knock the daylight out of
  11. knock the daylights out of

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