shell shock

Another said just the act of spending money on self-improvement made him determined to break out of his shell.

Off flew the shell, seven miles it flew; over the Turkish Army from one sea into another.

He conducts this ceremony with the greatest solemnity, occasionally pronouncing these incantatory words, "Plate or shell, sah?"

Fancy that enormous shell dropping suddenly out of the blue on to a ship's deck swarming with troops!

Like an electric shock, the well-known chords of the Tragala aroused his hearers—every one crowded round the singer.

The violent shock dazed Malcolm for a second, but all might yet have been well were it not for an unavoidable accident.