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Discover LudwigThe phrase "have a shock" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It means to experience or go through a sudden and surprising event or situation. Example: "I had a shock when I realized I had forgotten my wallet at home."
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"If Pierre Boulez says he wants to do 'Carmen,' I'll have a shock, then I'll say yes".
Even now the late pictures, from the 1970's, have a shock value nearly unsurpassed in recent art.
Those hoping for a rich, warm dramatisation in the manner of Walter Salles's 2004 film The Motorcycle Diaries, about Che's early life, will have a shock in store.
The UN hopes an Aleppo freeze would have a "shock therapy" effect that might galvanise a renewed political effort to end the conflict.
Paintings of creepy dolls wrapped in crinkly clear plastic -- laments apropos of AIDS, evidently -- have a shock value that teeters on kitsch but lingers in the mind.
"But we can't have channels broadcasting pictures of mutilated bodies and severed heads that have a shock effect on women and children".
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Shoes that provide effective arch support and have a shock-absorbing rubber sole reduce the risk of developing a callus.
"She's had a shock".
But the nay-sayers had a shock.
Last week, though, we had a shock.
I had a shock, but he did not.
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