at a loss for words

English

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Prepositional phrase

at a loss for words

(idiomatic) Having nothing to say; not knowing what to say; stunned to the point of being speechless.
She was at a loss for words when she saw the number of people who had come to grieve for her husband.

Synonyms

lost for words

Translations

having nothing to say

Catalan: quedar-se sense paraules
Dutch: sprakeloos (nl)
Finnish: mennä sanattomaksi (verb), mykistyä (fi) (verb)
French: bouche bée (fr)
Isan: เบิดคำสิเว้า (bə̀ət-kam-sì-wáo)
Japanese: 言葉に出来ない (ことばにできない, kotoba ni dekinai)
Polish: brak komuś słów (komuś is replaced with the appropriate noun or pronoun in dative)
Thai: หมดคำจะพูด (mòt-kam-jà-pûut), พูดไม่ออก (pûut-mâi-ɔ̀ɔk)

See also

words fail someone

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