to surprise or defeat completely
поразить или полностью победить (porazit' ili polnost'yu pobedit')
"Their performance blew us out of the water."
"Их выступление полностью нас поразило." (ikh vystuplenie **polnost'yu nas porazilo**)
To narrowly escape or achieve something by a very small marg...
to enter a new field or profession successfully
to sound familiar or remind someone of something
to react suddenly from shock or surprise
to have the opposite result of what was intended
to make a bad situation even worse