all of a heap
English
Adverb
all of a heap (not comparable)
- (colloquial, idiomatic) Into a sudden state of collapse or astonishment.
- 1916, Algernon Blackwood, The Dance of Death, first published in The Quest: A Quarterly Review
- What caught me all of a heap was that million-dollar sense of beauty, youth, and happiness.
- 2012, Joseph Lewis French, Masterpieces of Mystery (page 218)
- All of a sudden he remembered the spooks, and it knocked him all of a heap.
- 1916, Algernon Blackwood, The Dance of Death, first published in The Quest: A Quarterly Review
References
- 1873, John Camden Hotten, The Slang Dictionary
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