What is "knacker's yard"

Usage examples of "knacker's yard".

He says he will never be able to get them to priddy the deck with a whole heart again, nor take pains with the paintwork, now that it has been preached down as a vanity, and as something leading to the knacker's yard.

If Uncle Prosper ever retired--or, more likely, his dead body was dragged away from his desk to the knacker's yard--then she was a logical candidate to take over.

Dundridge held his breath and hurried on and came out into Knacker's Yard where a sign in front of a large red-brick building said Regional Planning Board.

The bottle struck a stone rather than the grassy bank, exploding like a small grenade and covering the road with tincture of laudanum: the post-boy turned at the sound, but meeting his passenger's pale eyes, fixed upon him in a cold, inimical stare, he feigned interest in a passing tilbury, calling out to its driver 'that the knacker's yard was only a quarter of a mile along the road, first turning on the left, if he wanted to get rid of his cattle'.

You know she's actually acquired quite a little collection of nags she's saved from the knacker's yard.

The rain brought out the worst in a city, churning up long-dried horse dung and slops, carrying blood from the knacker's yard, grease from the tallow drums, and bearing a circus full of carcasses along in the swell.

Vivi, deciding that they should use a half-bred unregistered throw-out as their entry to the sales, had bought one from a knacker's yard for peanuts.

He lived half in town, half in country now, and kept an expensive house, but he was out of politics, having been sent to the knacker's yard at Reform.

Even if the wind don't back another point she will sail straight to Pompey as it lays, without going about, and get there at least twice as fast as that poor old knacker's yard of a Berenice.

I'll not physick thee for't, I'll leave thee in the knacker's yard, thou cur's-meat.