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strike me blind! ⇨ strike me blind!; strike me dumb!; strike me lucky! used for registering shock, surprise or astonishment. Other variations include calls on God to strike the speaker 'bountiful', 'vulgar', 'ugly' or 'pink'. The earliest variation recorded is 'strike me dumb' in Vanbrugh's The Relapse, 1696 and 'strike me blind!' appears in 1704; 'strike me lucky!' from 1849, was a popular catchphrase in Australia in the 1930s. Other Australian examples are listed below UK, 1971
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