Sekirov Dictionary

knock someone over with a feather

UK /nɒk ˈsʌmwʌn ˈəʊvə(ɹ)wɪð ə ˈfɛðə(ɹ)/US /nɑk ˈsʌmwʌn ˈoʊvɚ wɪð ə ˈfɛðɚ/

verb1

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(informal) To greatly surprise or astonish someone.
- 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. — 1838

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