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121bowl over — {v.}, {informal} 1. To knock down as if with a bowled ball. * /The taxi hit him a glancing blow and bowled him over./ 2. To astonish with success or shock with misfortune; upset; stun. * /He was bowled over by his wife s sudden death./ * /The… …
122bowl of cherries — See: BED OF ROSES …
123bowl over — {v.}, {informal} 1. To knock down as if with a bowled ball. * /The taxi hit him a glancing blow and bowled him over./ 2. To astonish with success or shock with misfortune; upset; stun. * /He was bowled over by his wife s sudden death./ * /The… …
124bowl over — transitive verb Date: 1867 1. to take unawares 2. impress I,2 …
125bowl games — ➡ football – American style * * * …
126bowl game — bowl1 (def. 8). [1915 20] * * * …
127bowl a googly — verb to surprise (someone); to introduce (to someone) something unexpected, underhand or requiring a quick reaction or correction. Fred bowled me a googly when he asked me to explain those statistics in the meeting. Syn: catch unawares, catch …
128bowl over — verb a) To overwhelm; to cause to fall to the ground. This tribe lived largely upon the smaller animals which they bowled over with their stone hatchets after making a wide circle about their quarry and driving it so that it had to pass close to… …
