all of a heap | Idiomator

Meaning: (colloquial,idiomatic)Into a sudden state ofcollapseorastonishment.1897, Richard Marsh,The Beetle:I walked straight in expecting to find her waiting for me in the front room, — I was struckall of a heapwhen I found she wasn’t there.1916,Algernon Blackwood,The Dance of Death, first published inThe Quest: A Quarterly ReviewWhat caught meall of a heapwas that million-dollar sense of beauty, youth, and happiness.2012, Joseph Lewis French,Masterpieces of Mystery, page218:All of a sudden he remembered the spooks, and it knocked himall of a heap.

Examples:

EN: Struck all of a heap by her nephew's homage, said scourge will give her blessing to his marriage to the talented artist.
ES: Conmovida del homenaje de su sobrino, dicha calamidad dará su bendición a su boda con la talentosa artista.
ES: Atónita por el homenaje de su sobrino, dicho azote dará su bendición a su matrimonio con la talentosa artista.
EN: Oh, some feller knocked all of a heap by your fatal beauty, I expect.
ES: Algún tipo abrumado por tu belleza fatal, supongo.
EN: Jacob was, as he himself expressed it, "struck all of a heap."
TE: "కాస్త మెల్లగా పొడవాలి" ఆమెకు ముందుగానే చెప్పాడు జోసెఫ్.

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