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Jenne Phuong
2022-03-29 02:03
Blow (one's) socks off informal verb phrase
To thoroughly impress, surprise, or excite someone
We've just watched a movie that completely blows our socks off.
If you come to our home party tonight, it will blow your socks off.
She blew her colleagues' socks off with her new outfit
The verb "blow" should be conjugated according to its tense.
This figurative meaning of the term "knock one’s socks off" seems to have come into use in the mid-1900s, though this idiom was coined sometime in the mid-1800s. At that time, "knock one’s socks off" meant to soundly beat someone, either physically or figuratively. The idea behind the expression "knock one’s sock’s off" is to deal someone such a blow that not only is he knocked out of his shoes, but he is also knocked out of his socks.
Do you see anything wrong?
People tend to like forbidden or illegal things just because they are forbidden or illegal.
He must have believed that stolen fruit is the sweetest, and he, therefore, cheated on his partner.
