Cropper later spoke on AllMemphisMusic, an online Memphis radio station, "This kid came into Memphis, and just blew everybody's socks off.

"It blew my little socks off," she says about a collection that included Updike, Barth, Barthelme, and likely Cheever.

"That billion dollars pretty much blew everybody's socks off," said Eugene Corrigan, the commissioner of the Atlantic Coast Conference.

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And the drawings she did at 3, 4, 5 years of age blew people's socks off.

In fact - and this is going to blow your socks off if you've never thought about it before - God works out how much we love him by the way we treat other people (including teachers).

This is going to blow their socks off Norman flicked the switch labelled Big Rockets and the first of the big rockets shot into the sky.

It blew my socks off just seeing it on telly, never mind the real thing in the flesh.