knock someone's socks off

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knock someone's socks off (third-person singular simple present knocks someone's socks off, present participle knocking someone's socks off, simple past and past participle knocked someone's socks off)

  1. (idiomatic) To impress greatly; amaze; stun.
    You wouldn't expect teenagers to sing opera, but these kids will knock your socks off.
    • 2021 June 30, Tim Dunn, “How we made... Secrets of the London Underground”, in RAIL, number 934, page 46:
      But one of the enjoyable things of working around the railway is that no matter how well I think I know something or somewhere, there are always days when my socks are blown clean off.

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