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all of a heap

adv

Definitions

  1. Into a sudden state of collapse or astonishment.

    • I walked straight in expecting to find her waiting for me in the front room, — I was struck all of a heap when I found she wasn’t there.
    • 1916, Algernon Blackwood, The Dance of Death, first published in The Quest: A Quarterly Review What caught me all of a heap was that million-dollar sense of beauty, youth, and happiness.
    • All of a sudden he remembered the spooks, and it knocked him all of a heap.

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