knacker's yard
Britishnoun
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a slaughterhouse for horses
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informal destruction because of being beyond all usefulness (esp in the phrase ready for the knacker's yard )
Example Sentences
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In the first book she rescues her prize horse, Storm, from a knacker's yard.
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2013
Photograph: Tom Jenkins The London 2012 chairman, Lord Coe, has claimed that proposed changes to the list of banned substances that would differentiate between recreational and performance-enhancing drugs represent "the morality of the knacker's yard".
From The Guardian • Jul. 27, 2011
Elizabeth Taylor brought Bagnold's novel about 12-year-old Velvet Brown, who saves a horse from a knacker's yard and trains it for the Grand National to vivid life, but the book is every bit as good.
From The Guardian • Jul. 21, 2011
But the wide berth has probably only hastened the unfortunate animal's exit to the knacker's yard.
From The Guardian • Dec. 7, 2010
Four or five hundred horses are carried to the knacker’s yard each week in London.
From Days and Nights in London or, Studies in Black and Gray by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)
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