at a loss for words

English

Pronunciation

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Prepositional phrase

at a loss for words

1. (idiomatic) Having nothing to say; stunned to the point of speechlessness.

   She was at a loss for words when she saw the number of people who had come to grieve for her husband.

Synonyms

• lost for words

Translations

having nothing to say

• Catalan: quedar-se sense paraules
• Finnish: mennä sanattomaksi (verb), mykistyä (fi) (verb)
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• French: bouche bée (fr)
• Japanese: 言葉に出来ない (ことばにできない, kotoba ni dekinai)

See also

• words fail someone