See bowl over on Wiktionary
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"ref": "1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter VIII, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:",
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"(transitive, idiomatic) To overwhelm; to cause to fall to the ground."
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"To overwhelm with astonishment or wonder; to flabbergast."
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