knock-your-socks-off fast

[Свет]

Пожалуйста, помогите перевести неологизм knock-your-socks-off fast

Слово встречается в следующем контексте:We believe High Speed Internet should be knock-your-socks-off fast

Заранее спасибо

[Jacka]

Я встречал это выражение в значении "впечатлять, удивлять", не знаю, подходит ли это здесь.

[Juliza]

"knock-your-socks-off" означает "впечатлять, впечатляюще(-ий)"
(в Вашем тексте: интернет - впечатляюще быстрый)

Вот объяснение происхождения:

To begin at the beginning, the noun "sock" comes from the Latin word "soccus," which means "light shoe or slipper," and when "sock" first entered Old English around A.D. 725, it meant just that -- a slipper or lightweight shoe of the sort one might only wear indoors. By the early 14th century, "sock" had arrived at its modern meaning of "a short stocking covering the ankle and usually part of the calf." Such stockings were (and are) usually worn over the foot and under a heavier pair of shoes.

That arrangement of shoes-over-socks is important in understanding "knock your socks off." The phrase first appeared in the mid-19th century meaning "to beat or vanquish someone thoroughly," at first used literally to mean to win in a knock-down fistfight so savage that the loser might expect not to only lose his shoes in the fracas but his socks as well. The number of brawlers who actually lost their socks was probably pretty small, but a threat "to knock your socks off" was one of a number of such hyperbolic pugilistic phrases popular at the time, including "knock your lights out" and "knock you into next week."

Among folks who were not inclined to physical combat, to "knock someone's socks off" was soon adopted in a more general sense of "to win decisively," and one might "knock the socks off" one's opponents as well in bridge or whist as in the boxing ring. From there the phrase mutated a bit more and "to have one's socks knocked off" came to mean "to be amazed, delighted, very impressed," as in "The new production of Annie with an all-ferret cast will blow your socks off."

[Anton Klimenko]

ага.. такой интернет, что, как говорят провайдеры в нашем городе: "Пристегивайтесь!" :))))

Juliza
Спасибо огромное за этимологию.. Источником не поделитесь? :)

[Juliza]

Точно!!

Вот ссылка (там много другого интересного):
http://www.word-detective.com/

[Juliza]

А конкретно про "knock-your-socks-off" в этом выпуске:
http://www.word-detective.com/021804.html

[Anton Klimenko]

Вот спасибо! Thanks a bunch :))