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Meaning of knock someone down with a feather | Babel Free

Verb CEFR C2

Definitions

Forma verbal. Verb. [C2]

Examples

“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.””

CEFR level

C2

Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

knock someone flat knock someone for six knock someone into the middle of next week knock someone off their perch knock someone out of time knock someone over with a feather