knock 'em dead
Example Sentences
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Elaine Stritch’s death, at the age of eighty-nine, marks the end of an era—the end of old-school, succeed-or-die, knock-’em-dead, Broadway show-biz.
From The New Yorker • Jul. 18, 2014
Daniel Jackson has a gift for the kind of knock-'em-dead speech, usually followed by the character flouncing off stage, that leaves the audience no option but to burst into applause.
From The Guardian • Sep. 19, 2010
IBM sold fewer than 5,000 of its VAX killers last year, far from a knock-'em-dead performance.
From Time Magazine Archive
Radio tubes are taxed but not transistors, furs but not knock-'em-dead $3,000 evening dresses, aviation gasoline but not jet fuel.
From Time Magazine Archive
Then there was, of course, the good luck of Germany and Japan to lose their war against the U.S., which enabled both to enjoy a half-century run of knock-'em-dead economic robustness under American military protection.
From Time Magazine Archive
