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BEING SURPRISED OR SHOCKED - Coggle Diagram
BEING SURPRISED OR SHOCKED
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~ TO TAKE SMB'S BREATH AWAY (The view from the top will take your breath away.)
~ TO PULL SMB UP SHORT (The question brought her up short, but, after a moment’s hesitation, she answered it.)
~ TO TAKE SMB'S BREATH AWAY (The view from the top will take your breath away.)
~ TO RAISE ( A FEW) EYEBROWS (But for many, stories about one night-stands are more inclined to raise eyebrows than get them giggling.)
~ SMB NEARLY/ALMOST HAVE A HEART ATTACK
~ ONE FOR THE BOOKS/ A TURN-UP FOR THE BOOKS = a surprising event (Fancy you being in New York too. What a turn-up for the books!)
~ SMB NEARLY/ALMOST FALL OFF THEIR CHAIR (When I see my brother on the stage I nearly fell off my chair.)
~ A BOLT OUT OF THE BLUE (The company decided to appoint a Japanese manager as president of the company. The decision came as a bolt from the blue. )
~ TO BE LOST FOR WORDS (I had the feeling they were all waiting for me to say something. But for the first time in my life I felt at a loss for words.)
~ EYES ARE OUT ON STALKS (His eyes were out on stalks as he watched his neighbour drive past in a brand new Porsche.)
~ TO BLOW SMB'S MIND (Oxford really blew his mind. He loved the feeling of the place, he loved the people.
~ YOUR EYES POP OUT OF YOUR HEAD (When she saw the amount written on the cheque, her eyes nearly popped out of her head.
~ TO CATCH SMB OFF GUARD (The sudden snow storm caught us all off-guard.
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~ JUMP/LEAP OUT OF YOUR SKIN (The loud noise made me jump out of my skin.)
~ BE ROOTED TO THE SPOT (So startled was he by this sudden onslaught, Ryker momentarily froze, rooted to the spot.
~ NOT BELIEVE MY EYES/EARS
~ TO BE STRUCK DUMB (We were struck dumb when she announced she was pregnant.)
~ SMB'S JAW DROPS/HITS THE GROUND (When the assistant told me it cost £600 my jaw hit the ground.)
ADJECTIVES
~ STAGGERED(Needless to say I was staggered at this result)
~ THUNDERSTRUCK(I was thunderstruck to find out he had been lying the whole time).
~STARTLED (The noise startled him, and he dropped his glass on the floor.)
~ GOGGLE-EYED (Johnson stared goggle-eyed at Kravis' sumptuous quarters.)
~ STUNNED ( She looked pale and stunned -- it was clear that something awful had happened.)
~ AGAPE (She sat there with her mouth agape, staring at the ring.)
~ ASTOUNDED (His teacher at the private school was astounded by his quick mind.)
~ FLABBERGASTED (When I heard how much money we’d made, I was flabbergasted.)
~ DUMPFOUNDED (He was completely dumbfounded by the incident.)
~ NONPLUSSED BY/AT (Billy was completely nonplussed by Elliot’s refusal.)