Quotes About Stumped

If the keeper is standing up, in the fear of getting stumped, the batsman will not try to walk down the wicket to negate the swing.

Check your spam folder The prophecies might be there No? Well, I'm stumped. Bye

That thing that everyone talks about. That really big newspaper in the sky that came along and ruined everything else, blah blah blah.' Rosie was stumped, until light finally dawned. 'You mean the internet?' 'Well, yes. I hate that thing.' 'The whole thing?' 'Yes.' 'You hate the entire internet?' 'Yes.

I once stumped Jimmy Buffett by calling him a saint.

What, are you totally psycho? I shouted. Maybe I am! he screamed back at me. Maybe that's just what I am. Maybe I'm that quiet guy who suddenly goes nuts and then you find half the neighborhood in his freezer. I gotta admit, that one stumped me for a second - but only for a second. Which half? I asked. Huh? Which half of the neighborhood? Could you make it the people on the other side of Avenue T, because I never really liked them anyway.

You remind me of something that happened in our book department the other day. A flapper came in and said she had forgotten the name of the book she wanted, but it was something about a young man who had been brought up by the monks. I was stumped. I tried her with The Cloister and the Hearth and Monastery Bells and Legends of the Monastic Orders and so on, but her face was blank. Then one of the salesgirls overheard us talking, and she guessed it right off the bat. Of course it was Tarzan.

nonplussed.

Just say perplexed or bewildered, even confused, but never nonplussed.