| 词汇 | knacker-s-yard |
| 释义 | knacker's yard noun[ Cusually singular ] UKuk /ˈnæk.əz ˌjɑːd/ us /ˈnæk.ɚz ˌjɑːrd/ a place where old or injured animals, especially horses, that are not suitable to be eaten by humans, are killed and their bodies processed so the body parts can be used: 老弱马匹屠宰场 Four years ago the horse was saved from the knacker's yard. Police and environmental health officers carried out a surveillance operation on a knacker's yard in the area. Factories assembly line brewery cannery chemical park conveyor belt gasworks industrial park mill miller multi-plant on the factory flooridiom power station rolling mill shipyard slaughterhouse smelter smithy solar plant steel mill the shop floor the knacker's yard informal a situation in which something has failed completely or a person is no longer successful or useful: The state of the economy has led to many small businesses ending up in the knacker's yard. Recently there have been flourishes of excellence from players supposedly destined for the knacker's yard. The surest sign that an institution is heading towards the knacker's yard is when it becomes paranoid about negative publicity. He was summoned from retirement to save the company from the financial knacker's yard. Failures another/the final nail in the coffinidiom bloodbath brain freeze breakdown busted flush car crash false dawn fiasco flameout flop foul (something) up hash lemon loser omnishambles parody post-crash pratfall reversal slim pickings |
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