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"Gobsmack" remains undefined.
"Gobsmack" is the incorrect form of the word. The correct use is "gobsmacked".
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"I was utterly gobsmacked when I returned home to find the kitten had wrecked the place".
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it is an expression meaning that a person is amazed or astounded by an event (flabbergasted) it derives from the Irish language.
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Gob Smacking, or "Gobsmacked" is slang expression used in the UK to indicate surprised, astonished. "Gob" is slang for one's mouth. When a person is amazed or astonished, he might put the open palm of his hand over his open (in astonishment) mouth, simulating a "smack," hence, Gobsmacking. In a sentence: "When I found out I won the lottery, I was gobsmacked."
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The shell-shocked veteran was gobsmacked (means astonished or astounded) when he found out that the South had lost the war.
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Gob Smacking, or "Gobsmacked" is slang expression used in the UK to indicate surprised, astonished. "Gob" is slang for one's mouth. When a person is amazed or astonished, he might put the open palm of his hand over his open (in astonishment) mouth, simulating a "smack," hence, Gobsmacking. In a sentence: "When I found out I won the lottery, I was gobsmacked."
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The typically UK slang is gobsmacked (shocked or dumbfounded), from the 1960s era military slang, itself from the Irish word "gob" for mouth.
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I would say yes .Not because i amso smart but because paper is made out of trees and so is wood, I would be gobsmacked if someone objected and said otherwise.
Recycling is basically burning and reusing isn't it - you can burn wood in your back garden cant you?
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It means completely taken aback, so shocked that you almost feel someone struck you in the face. (Gob is slang for mouth).
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impressed, surprised, and astonished are sinonyms for amazed flabbergasted
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Well I am gobsmacked to say LOUIS SPENCE is replacing Jason Gardiner
Olympic figure skater Katarina Witt is replacing Emma Bunton
And Robin Cousins well, is still Robin Cousins
So there is your judges line-up
Louis Spence|Katrina Witt|Robin Cousins
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to be dumb struck (speechless) by surprise
From Coal Mining: The hole created by the removal of waste material was known as the Gob (from the slang for mouth). Occasionally the roof of the gob would cave in this was known as Gob being Smacked. The miners in the surrounding area would get an enormous fright from the incident and would be startled. They were said to have been Gob Smacked.
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Wonder and awe in God's presence means basically to be gobsmacked and absolutely mute in the presence of sheer awesomeness and to feel peace and ultimately at one with yourself and to stand in absolute admiration and fascination and be totally focused on that
Wonder and Awe in God's Presence means that you need to appreciate what God has done for us in our life's and what he made around us.
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Wonder and awe in God's presence means basically to be gobsmacked and absolutely mute in the presence of sheer awesomeness and to feel peace and ultimately at one with yourself and to stand in absolute admiration and fascination and be totally focused on that
Wonder and Awe in God's Presence means that you need to appreciate what God has done for us in our life's and what he made around us.
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Excessive conformity stifles innovation. It also leads to uproductive behaviour. As a former public servant, I witnessed ridiculously unproductive activities because the behavioural norm was to avoid risk at all cost and punish those who seemed 'risky'. Was gobsmacked at the extent to which 'unusual' behaviour was frowned upon at the same time as pathetic paper-shuffling to avoid risk was rewarded.
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overwhelmed (adj) * overcome, overawed, speechless, dazed, stunned, incredulous, flabbergasted (informal), astounded, gobsmacked (UK, slang), amazed, dumbfounded, knocked for six (UK, informal)antonym: unimpressed
* overpowered physically, overcome, beaten, conquered, crushed, subjugated, routed, vanquished, trounced
* inundated, snowed under, swamped, flooded, exhausted
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Actually and surprisingly, it's Ireland. Irish comedian, Dara O'Briain was on QI, hosted by Stephen Fry, who asked this very question. Dara was gobsmacked when Fry told him that Ireland was the world's largest exporter of bananas, and joked why weren't we told this at school. Fry went on to explain that Ireland had bought the entire global crop, starting with Guatemala and began exporting Fyffes bananas.
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Actually and surprisingly, it's Ireland. Irish comedian, Dara O'Briain was on QI, hosted by Stephen Fry, who asked this very question. Dara was gobsmacked when Fry told him that Ireland was the world's largest exporter of bananas, and joked why weren't we told this at school. Fry went on to explain that Ireland had bought the entire global crop, starting with Guatemala and began exporting Fyffes bananas.
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The title front porch cyclone refers to when he goes into the restaurant thinking that he’ll be helping someone who works there perhaps but then is totally gobsmacked to find out that its his mum that he’s helping. He also sees her with a man, probably on a date or something and at that moment he knows exactly what he needs to do for his mother. He goes out of therestaurantand goes and waits at his mothers front porch. when she arrives she sees him and is totallysurprised although she doesn't know that Ed has seen her with that person yet. They have a fight about how she doesn't treat him well and how he is the only son who is here with her. She tells Ed that his father promised that he would take the family away from here, away from this town but never did. their still where they always were. Ed is out of words when he hears this.
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The origin is British. The late quotation anthologist James B. Simpson sent me an early usage in 1997 from Tony Banks, Britain's minister of sport at the time, ''I was completely gobsmacked,'' which I dutifully posted in this space, little realizing the expression had such a future. The Oxford Dictionary of New Words reports usages from the mid-80's, defining it as ''astounded, flabbergasted; speechless or incoherent with amazement; overawed.''
A gob has to do with the mouth. It can mean ''a mass,'' as in ''gobs of money,'' from the Old French gobe, ''mouthful.'' The Gaelic gob is ''mouth, beak.'' One sense of the verb gobble, from the same French root, is ''to eat fast and greedily.'' And when a politician says a mouthful with some degree of articulation, he is said to have the gift of gab.
Why is a sailor called a gob, which has the dialect sense of ''to spit''? Because in British nautical slang of the 19th century, coast guardsmen used to tell yarns, chew tobacco and spit out the juice. The common denominator of all this gobbledygook is the mouth.
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There is no way someone could teach you more than a few words on WikiAnswers in Spanish. You need to take a class in Spanish either at school or online if you want to learn the language. Go to google.com and type in the words learn Spanish and see what you can find there.
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"Sweet Charity" (1969). The ending in the film matches the Broadway play (downer). Director Bob Fosse filmed an alternate ending because he feared the studio would demand a happy ending. But he was able to convince them to keep the original.
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Feeling wonder and awe in God's presence refers to experiencing a profound sense of reverence, amazement, and humility when connecting with the divine. It involves recognizing the majesty and power of God, as well as the mystery and beauty of His creation. This feeling can inspire feelings of gratitude, love, and spiritual growth.
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The Indian in the cupboard is a story about a boy, Omri, and some shoddy, second hand birthday presents he received from his brother and best friend. A little plastic Indian and a cupboard retrieved from an alley are the two most unlikely presents to please a person. However, that is exactly twist in this book.
Along with a key belonging to his grandmother, Omri brings the little Indian, Little Bear, to life. Little Bear is quite the demanding little man. He expects all to be up to a specific standard and doesn't think anything of it if it's not. Omri soon discovers though, that Little Bear has a past life of his own. It is one of many great secrets. But like most great secrets, you can't keep them to yourself for long. Omri's best friend Patrick is too suspicious so Omri eventually lets him in. That may be a big mistake though.
Patrick brings a cowboy, Boone, to life. One thing you do not want is a cowboy and an Indian in the same room. The natural conflict isn't great and it gets worse when Patrick threatens to spill the secret if Omri doesn't bring the men to school the next day.
Omri did as Patrick requested but as the day went on; he began to think it wasn't such a great idea. They get into a lot of trouble with the headmaster and Patrick is forced to show him the men. The headmaster leaves his office looking totally gobsmacked and extremely in need of some colour in the face.
After school, Little Bear demanded to get a wife. The boys stop down at the local store and Little Bear chooses his bride-to-be.
After what the boys think is a nightmare is actually a dream. The little plastic men start up a controversy. One thing led to another and Boone ended up with an arrow in his chest very narrowly missing his heart. What's more is that Omri's brother's pet rat has gotten loose, made off with the key to the cupboard, and is hiding somewhere underneath the floorboards.
Little Bear full of shame, guilt, and regret decides to take it upon himself to get the key back and help save Boone. Little Bear returns with the key and together they bring to life a doctor serving in the WW1 army.
With the help of the doctor and Little Bear's new wife, Boone is restored to full health. Little Bear firmly suggests that they be blood brothers, so, a great Indian ceremony takes place in Omri's bedroom. Now with everything back in order the boys think that it is best that the little men be put back in the cupboard and sent back to their own time.
Omri and Patrick do not throw the cupboard away, but keep it for a rainy day.
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Inevitably there's going to be some kind of subjectivity to any answer. I'll take your word "innovative" to mean "unprecedented". These are my suggestions:
- The anonymous author and composer of Musica Enchiriadis, a 9th century treatise devoted partly to polyphony. It didn't actually invent polyphony (strictly, the simultaneous sounding of more than one note; more accurately, two or more musical lines or melodies that are complementary but also independent in both pitch and rhythm), but it attempted to codify its practices. The polyphonic principle underlies practically all subsequent Western music except monophony (i.e. a single unaccompanied melody), which proportionally speaking is fairly thin on the ground.
- The composers of the late 14th century avant garde, a style known as the Ars Subtilior ("most subtle art"). This is a highly mannered style whose exponents went far beyond contemporary practice in terms of pitch and rhythmic complexity, using extreme chromaticism and combining different time signatures. Composers include Solage, the music of whose piece Fumeux fume par fumee ("The smoky one smokes through smoke") can only be described as being as bizarre as the text.
- Gesualdo (1566-1613). An Italian prince who murdered his wife, her lover and (possibly) their son when he caught them in flagrante dilecto. He remarried, by all accounts quite happily. Then he wrote his last two books of madrigals, which are way off the scale of what was normal for the time. They're chromatic to the nth degree, a degree that presages Wagner.
- Edgard Varese (1883-1965). The first composer to write a piece consisting entirely of unpitched sounds: Ionization, for 13 percussionists. This was a contradiction of the most basic constituent of Western music since Gregorian chant: determinate pitch. It paved the way for the electronic music of a few decades later.
- Charles Ives (1874-1954). He pioneered many techniques such as polytonality, polyrhythm, tone clusters, aleatoric music (in which the performer rather than the composer determines some of the piece's elements) and quarter tones (intervals smaller than the semitones you see on a keyboard).
Doubtless others would chip in with such luminaries as Claudio Monteverdi (1567-1643), the first composer to break with the Renaissance polyphonic musical traditions and to launch what is now known as the Baroque period; Beethoven (1770-1827), who realised the potential for the personally expressive and the titanic in music; and my own beloved Wagner (1813-1883), who revolutionised both opera and the orchestra and - in the view of many - pushed music to the boundaries of tonality, making Schoenberg (1874-1954) inevitable. Speaking of which - Schoenberg, Stravinsky (1882-1971) and Debussy (1862-1918) each played their part in breaking some boundaries. Schoenberg finally ditched the major-minor tonal system that had been the norm since about 1650; Stravinsky turned the previous Romantic century around completely; and Debussy was one of the first to bend the tonal system beyond breaking point, leaving only its remnants in his work. However, all of the above could be seen as relying on their predecessors rather than being truly independent of them.
For my money, however, the most innovatory composer of all time is Franz Liszt (1811-1886). No, not the Liszt of the Liebestraum, but the Liszt of the late piano music. He pioneered techniques that were decades ahead of his time. He was the first to write a piece of whole tone music (one based on a scale consisting purely of tones, not a mixture of tones and semitones as are the major and minor scales of tonality). Much of this late stuff is atonal - in fact, one of the pieces is his Bagatelle without Tonality. His dissonances are simply inexplicable in terms of any conventional tonal treatment; they include a tone cluster, a la Ives and Cowell. Liszt himself wrote on the cover of one of these experimental pieces, the Czardas Macabre (which consists of a string of parallel 5ths, a progression forbidden for about half a millennium), "Is it allowed to write such stuff, or listen to it?" As an index of how revolutionary this late music was, iconoclasts and progressives one and two generations later - namely, Debussy and Bartok respectively - were gobsmacked when they discovered this stuff. Very dark music, most of it, and thus very much an acquired taste. Enjoy!
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