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View synonyms for knock dead

knock dead



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Idioms and Phrases

Greatly amuse, astonish, or thrill someone, as in This new song will knock them dead . This slangy hyperbolic expression was first recorded in 1889. Also see knock the socks off .
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Example Sentences

At various times in my crystal-ball-gazing career, I have predicted that the Internet would knock dead newspapers, magazines, TV, the U.S. political system and America Online--all enterprises that are apparently healthy.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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