blow out of the water

What does blow out of the water mean?

blow out of the water means "surprise greatly; knock someone's socks off".

What is another word for blow out of the water?

Close synonyms include shock, floor, ball over, take aback. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blow out of the water a common word?

blow out of the water is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for blow out of the water come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.