socks

[Dan Goncharoff]

What about "knock them out of their shoes", which would leave them back on
their socks.
DanG


On Thu, Oct 18, 2012 at 1:49 PM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:

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> On Oct 18, 2012, at 10:40 AM, "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at MST.EDU>
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> > Looks like a blend: "knock them back on their heels" and "knock their
> socks off".
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> maybe a production error, maybe something else.
>
> possibly with "knock them off their feet" thrown in.
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> > Victor Steinbok [aardvark66 at GMAIL.COM] wrote, Thursday, October 18,
> 2012 12:33 PM:
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> > Is "knock them back on their socks" (as opposed to "heels") a normal
> > expression? I flagged it in a public radio interview with a Naval
> > Academy professor who is advocating elimination of the military
> academies.
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> arnold
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