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An encouraging exclamation or idiom meaning to perform brilliantly and impress an audience completely.
"As she stepped onto the stage, the coach whispered, "Go out there and knock them dead!""
"You have prepared for weeks; you are going to knock them dead today."
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20th-century American show business slang, figuratively "striking the audience dead" with amazement and thunderous applause.
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