strike dumb
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It may be that the magnitude of the problem is bound to strike dumb anyone who addresses it.
From Time Magazine Archive
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He who seldom speaks, and with one calm well-timed word can strike dumb the loquacious, is a genius or a hero.—Lavater.
From Many Thoughts of Many Minds A Treasury of Quotations from the Literature of Every Land and Every Age by Klopsch, Louis
Dumfound′, -er, to strike dumb: to confuse greatly: to astonish.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
True thunder shall strike dumb their chirping chimes.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 103, October 22, 1892 by Various
The scene is one to strike dumb with awe, or to unstring the nerves; one might stand in silent astonishment, another would burst into tears.
From Our Italy by Warner, Charles Dudley