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Thread #8686   Message #3592526
Posted By: MGM·Lion
16-Jan-14 - 03:51 AM
Thread Name: What does blow the man down mean?
Subject: RE: What does blow the man down mean?
But if it is an instruction to someone to strike someone or something, rather than to an imagined & personified heavy wind, it would surely require a very powerful blow or strike to "Blow him right back to Liverpool town", but a particularly heavy breeze could, perhaps, poetic-fancifully & hyperbolically, do so? OTOH if it appears that the blow is to be struck by the whole crew acting in concert {whence, the vocative "bullies"}, then maybe by acting together they could hit him hard enough at that, to achieve a similar effect!

Mebbe....

~M~