knock down with a feather

see under knock for a loop.

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Somehow he had passed in extreme fatigue from the physical state of stable equilibrium; he had become such a man as you may “knock down with a feather,” and this little misadventure had upset his balance.

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knock-down-drag-out knocked-down

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