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knocks someone over with a feather

knocks someone over with a feather is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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)

  1. (excessive, idiomatic, informal) 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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Knocks someone over with a feather is the third-person singular simple present indicative of knock someone over with a feather.

Words near knocks someone over with a feather in the dictionary

  1. knocks someone down with a feather
  2. knocks someone flat
  3. knocks someone for six
  4. knocks someone into the middle of next week
  5. knocks someone off their perch
  6. knocks someone over with a feather
  7. knocks someone's socks off
  8. knocks someone's wind out
  9. knocks the ball out of the park
  10. knocks the corners off
  11. knocks the daylight out of

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