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knock someone’s socks off

idiom/nɑk ˈsʌmwʌnz sɑks ɔf/

to impress or amaze someone greatly

The performance was so good it knocked my socks off!

word origin — An American 19th-century expression — impressing someone so powerfully that their socks fall off from astonishment.