字幕表 動画を再生する 英語字幕をプリント Hi this is Tutor Nick P and this is Idioms 279. The idiom today is to knock someone's socks off. Okay. Let's take a look at the note here. This idiom can also be seen as to blow someone socks off. So you can hear it either way. To knock someone socks off or to blow someone socks off. But I do think knock is a little more common than blow. Let's continue. If one person knocks or blows another person's socks off, he or she thoroughly you know, completely totally impresses or overwhelms someone. We do have a second meaning here too. A second meaning can also mean to outperform or outclass someone like in comparison to the person who is the winner. All right. Let's continue. The idiom first appeared around the 1800s and originally meant to thoroughly beat someone up. Thus the original meaning meant to physically harm someone. So like you or maybe you hit them so much that their clothes are flying off. But we don't really use that so much anymore. Now it's it's just like shock of impressing somebody could possibly knock somebody's clothes off or it knocks them over and their socks fly off. Something like that.That's kind of the idea behind it. Okay. Today it is mostly means .. mostly used to mean to impress or impress a lot. Okay. So let's look. We have three examples here. The first example. That dancer really knocked the socks off of the audience with her performance. Maybe her performance was so good that everybody loved it. They were thoroughly impressed with it. Or number two here. Her speech knocked their socks off. Yeah. Maybe somebody gave a great speech and they really impressed whoever was in the audience. Whoever was there. So she knocked their socks off. And the third one you know, a little similar to the second meaning up here. Nobody was a close second. She knocked the socks off of the other competitors. Meaning she kind of outclassed them or outperformed them. Okay. Anyway. I hope you got it. I hope it's clear. Thank you for your time. Bye-bye.
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