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Definition

Alternative form of knock someone over with a feather.

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In Context

  • "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."
  • "“No doubt the fellow was very useful to her. But you could have knocked us all down with a feather when, three months ago, she suddenly announced that she and Alfred were engaged! The fellow must be at least twenty years younger than she is! It’s simply bare-faced fortune hunting; but there you are—she is her own mistress, and she’s married him.”"
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knock someone over with a feather

To greatly surprise or astonish someone.

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To knock someone down; to hit someone so they fall to the floor.
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