for a loop

1. see knock for a loop.

Example Sentences

In what ways did you feel ready for it and in what ways has it just thrown you for a loop?

From Los Angeles Times

What has thrown me for a loop is fame.

From Los Angeles Times

After years of Top 40 hits, Wilson's ever-more-meticulous compositions and studio wizardry would result in "Pet Sounds," a layered masterpiece that knocked their rock music contemporaries for a loop and set the ambitious course that popular music would take throughout the next decade.

From Salon

It threw observers for a loop when it did a short and limited theatrical release for last year’s Brad Pitt and George Clooney action-comedy movie “Wolfs,” instead of a more traditional wide release.

From Los Angeles Times

The 49-year-old split with documentary filmmaker Erik Anders Lang in 2016, and it threw her for a loop, she told Zane Lowe in September 2023.

From Los Angeles Times