OF A HEAP


Meaning of OF A HEAP in English

phrasal

or all of a heap

1. : so as to be stupefied, amazed, or overcome

a lot of people were also struck all of a heap because … the favorite could do no better than finish third — G.F.T.Ryall

struck him so completely of a heap that he was almost a broken man — H.L.Davis

2. : all of a sudden

all of a heap they had given her perplexity, immobility, and a dreadful thought — F.M.Ford

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