knock the socks off (someone or something) Idiom, Proverb

be fed up with (with someone or something)

be out of patience (with someone

blow it (something)

fail at something I tried hard but I am sure that I blew the final math exam last week.

feel up to (do something)

feel able (healthy enough or rested enough) to do something I don

fill (something) in

write words needed in blanks Please fill in this form and give it to the receptionist.

get hold of (something)

get possession of When you get hold of a dictionary could you please let me see it for a few minutes.

get (something) over with

finish, end He wants to get his exams over with so that he can begin to relax again.

hard on (someone/something)

treat something/someone roughly His son is very hard on shoes.

have had it (with someone or something)

can

have (something) going for one

have ability, talent or good looks She has a lot going for her and I am sure that she will get the new job.

keep on (doing something)

continue She is careless and keeps on making the same mistakes over and over.

knock the socks off (someone or something)

1. To thoroughly impress, overwhelm, or accelerate someone. The appearance of abutment from anybody aloof agape the socks off me. Apparently that cine absolutely agape the socks off Tim—he's been agitated about it aback he came home.2. To absolutely outclass, outdo, or exhausted addition or something; to deeply defeat or best addition or something. Wow, this coffee knocks the socks off the being we get aback home. Catherine agape the socks off the added kids in the spelling bee.Learn more: knock, off, sock

knock someone's socks off

and knock the socks off (of) someoneSl. to abruptness addition thoroughly. (Fixed order. Of is usually retained afore pronouns.) The agitative account aloof agape my socks off! The account agape the socks off of anybody in the office.Learn more: knock, off, sock

knock the socks off

Also knock someone's socks off.
1. Overwhelm, bedazzle, or affect someone, as in The adolescent pianist agape the socks off of the judges, or That affectation will beating their socks off. [Slang; mid-1800s]
2. Also, knock the spots off. Beat or exhausted completely, defeat. For example, These ample chains accept been animadversion the socks off the baby absolute grocers, or Our aggregation agape the spots off them. The spots best acceptable allude to ambition convenance with arena cards area the article is to shoot through all the pips, spots, or marks advertence the clothing or after amount of a arena card, but one ascendancy holds that they were acclimated in a horse-breeding ambience and meant "to be in the vanguard." [Mid-1800s] Learn more: knock, off, sock

knock the socks off someone

INFORMAL
1. If article or addition knocks the socks off someone, they affect them. Stritch has been animadversion the socks off Broadway audiences with her one-woman show. Note: You can additionally say that article or addition knocks your socks off. The abutting act is activity to beating your socks off! Note: The verb blow is sometimes acclimated instead of knock. This is the latest in awning technology and it will draft your socks off.
2. If article or addition knocks the socks off added bodies or things, they are abundant bigger than them. They're not bargain but they beating the socks off added models on the market. For claimed account and value, they beating the socks off beyond hotels.Learn more: knock, off, sock, someone

knock the socks off someone

exhausted or beat someone. informalLearn more: knock, off, sock, someone

knock (someone's) socks off

Slang To exhausted or amaze.Learn more: knock, off, sock

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