knacker's yard
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
knacker's yard
- The area of a slaughterhouse where carcasses unfit for human consumption or other purpose#Noun|purposes are render#Verb|rendered down to produce#Verb|produce useful material#Noun|materials such as glue#Noun|glue.
- Synonyms: knackery
- (colloquial, figuratively) A (notional) place#Noun|place to send a person or object#Noun|object that is spent#Adjective|spent beyond all reasonable use#Noun|use.
- I’ve never met someone so incompetent. He’s only fit for the knacker’s yard.
- French: équarrissoir
- German: Abdeckerei, Kafillerei
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