Definition
Into a sudden state of collapse or astonishment.
In Context
- "I walked straight in expecting to find her waiting for me in the front room, — I was struck all of a heap when I found she wasn’t there."
- "1916, Algernon Blackwood, The Dance of Death, first published in The Quest: A Quarterly Review What caught me all of a heap was that million-dollar sense of beauty, youth, and happiness."
- "All of a sudden he remembered the spooks, and it knocked him all of a heap."