brim you over with astonishment

[GoodTaste]

Does "brim you over with astonishment" mean "make you feel full of astonishment"?


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The fact that you exist should brim you over with astonishment. You and I, and every other living creature, are machines of ineffable complexity, complexity of a magnitude to challenge credulity.


Source: The God Delusion

 

[GoesStation]

The author (whom you neglected to name) coined a new usage. You understand it correctly.

 

[probus]

Richard Dawkins, one of my favorite authors.

 

[GoodTaste]

Richard Dawkins, one of my favorite authors.

Yeah. This Oxford Professor is profoundly proficient and professional in English.

 

[emsr2d2]

Yeah. This Oxford Professor is profoundly proficient and professional in English.

You must name the source and the author in post #1.

 

[probus]

Yeah. This Oxford Professor is profoundly proficient and professional in English.

What Dawkins is, in my opinion, is a superb popularizer of science. He's right up there with Noam Chomsky and Stephen Pinker.