knocking someone over with a feather
knocking someone over with a feather is the present participle and gerund of knock someone over with a feather.
Meaning of knock someone over with a feather
Verb
knock someone over with a feather (third-person singular simple present knocks someone over with a feather, present participle knocking someone over with a feather, simple past and past participle knocked someone over with a feather)
- To greatly surprise or astonish someone.
- She hardly, she said, believed her own senses. You might have knocked her down with a feather. She did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels.1838 February 17, “Review of Books. Hood’s Own. No. 1. Baily.”, in The Idler, and Breakfast-table Companion; a New and Fashionable Weekly Journal of Literature, Fine Arts, Music, Amusement...
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- Knocking someone over with a feather is the present participle and gerund of knock someone over with a feather.
Words near knocking someone over with a feather in the dictionary
- knocking someone down with a feather
- knocking someone flat
- knocking someone for six
- knocking someone into the middle of next week
- knocking someone off their perch
- knocking someone over with a feather
- knocking someone's socks off
- knocking someone's wind out
- knocking spirit
- knocking spirits
- knocking the ball out of the park
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