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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.