knock someone down with a feather

Meaning: (idiomatic,informal)Alternative form ofknock someone over with a feather.1838February 17, “Review of Books.Hood’s Own. No. 1.Baily.”, inThe Idler, and Breakfast-table Companion; a New and Fashionable Weekly Journal of Literature, Fine Arts, Music, Amusement, Exhibitions, Varieties, Satire, and the Stage, volume II, numbers7 (nos. 50 and 51), London: Published for the proprietor by George Denney, at the office, 7,Tavistock Street,Covent Garden,→OCLC,page50, column 2:She hardly, she said, believed her own senses. You might haveknocked her down with a feather. She did not know whether she stood on her head or her heels.1920,Agatha Christie,The Mysterious Affair at Styles, London: Pan Books, published1954, page 7:“No doubt the fellow was very useful to her. But you could haveknocked us all down with a featherwhen, three months ago, she suddenly announced that she and Alfred were engaged! The fellow must be at least twenty years younger than she is! It’s simply bare-faced fortune hunting; but there you are—she is her own mistress, and she’s married him.”

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