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Knock. 126 Knock.
1887. FRANCIS, Saddle 67. Mocassin,
152. She can KNOCK THE SPOTS OUT OF
these boys at that game.
1888. Pall Mall Budget, 26 Ap.,
p. 5. An American gentleman has just
sailed for Sydney TO KNOCK SPOTS OUT
OF the rabbits.
To KNOCK THE BOTTOM
(STUFFING, WADDING, LINING,
FILLING, or INSIDE) OUT OF, verb.
phr. (common).—To confound;
to surpass ; TO FLOOR (q.v.); to
thrash ; to finish off.
1889. SI:wiling Times, 3 Aug., p. 3,
col. x. Hold hard—here he is. Good
ev'ning, sir 'aven' t the pleasure of knowing
you, but saw you KNOCK THE STUFFING
OUT OF the ring to-day. Done well ? '
1891. BELLAMY, Dr. Heidenhoff's
Process, p. 52. This cool ignoring of all
that had happened that day in modifying
their relations at one blow KNOCKED THE
BOTTOM OUT OF all his thinking for the
past week.
To KNOCK SMOKE OUT OF, verb.
phr. (colonial).—To try ; to vanquish
utterly.
1888. ROLE BOLDREWOOD, Robbery
Under Arms, xi. You ought to have
sense enough not to KNOCK SMOKE OUT
of fresh horses before we begin. Ibid.
xxxix. A regiment or a man-of-war's
crew like him would KNOCK SMOKE OUT
OF any other thousand men the world
could put up.
To KNOCK SAUCEPANS OUT OF,
verb. phr. (colloquial).—To run
amuck.
1888. ROLF BOLDREWOOD, Robbery
Under Arms, xxvi. He'll begin to
KNOCK SAUCEPANS OUT OF all the boys
between here and Weddin Mountain.
To KNOCK OUT THE WEDGES,
verb.phr.(American).—To desert;
to leave in a difficulty.
To KNOCK ROUND. See To
KNOCK ABOUT.
To KNOCK UNDER, verb.phr.
(old : now colloquial).—To yield;
to give out; to confess defeat.
1668. DRYDEN, An Evening's Love,
V. KNOCK UNDER, you rogue, and confess
me conqueror.
1691-2. Gentlemen's 7ottrnal, Mar.,
p. 10. He that flinches his glass, and
to drink is not able, Let him quarrel no
more, but KNOCK UNDER the table.
1703. The Levellers, in Hari. Misc.
(ed. Park), V. 447. Now, my dear, though
I must acknowledge our sex to be extraordinary
vicious, we will not KNOCK
UNDER-BOARD to the men.
1719. DuRFEY, Pills etc. i. 27.
Who with Water and Cannon Mahon ' did
take, And make the Pope KNOCK UNDER.
c.1730. A. RAMSAY, Address of
Thanks, in Wks. (1851), ii. 347. They
will be forced to thumb your belt, At
last and a' KNOCK UNDER.
1782. GEO. PARKER, Humorous
Sketches, p. 164. When fame from
ministers is flown, ' Tis time they should
KNOCK UNDER.
1844. Puck, p. 82. Says mighty Dan
to the Sassenach chain, I never will
KNOCK UNDER.
1851-61. MAYHEW, Loud. Lab. etc.,
iii. 71. Several had tried it, but they had
to KNOCK UNDER very soon.
1852. THACKERAY, Esmond, 11 i . 4 .
Colonel Esmond KNOCKED UNDER to his
fate.
1866. Argosy, NO. 2, p. 191. So the
Emperor of Austria has KNOCKED UNDER,
and the Hungarian Diet has met for the
first time for sixteen years. They have
conquered by the force of passive resistance.
It is the grandest thing since our
Long Parliament.
1871. Five Years' Penal Servitude,
iii. 223. The men are drove into being
reg'lar devils by being constantly down
upon by the blooming officers. Them as
'as any pluck in 'ern turns savage, and
them as 'asn't they KNOCKS UNDER, as
I did, and gets ill, and lots on 'em dies.
1872. Daily Teleg -rafik, 29 Aug.
Finally, he KNOCKED UNDER with an
abjectness which made every true American
blush from the tips of his hair to
the soles of his boots.
To KNOCK UP, verb. phr.
(Christ's Hospital).—I. To gain a
place in class : e.g. I KNOCKED UP
and I KNOCKED Jones up.' -The
Hertford equivalent is ox UP (q.v.).