knock into a cocked hat (English, verb)
expansion: knock into a cocked hat (third-person singular simple present knocks into a cocked hat, present participle knocking into a cocked hat, simple past and past participle knocked into a cocked hat)
Senses:
glosses: To beat up or seriously injure (a person); to badly damage (a thing).
tags: colloquial
dated
transitive
glosses: To completely demolish, nullify, overthrow, or otherwise defeat (a person; an argument, idea, or proposition; or a thing).
tags: British
colloquial
figuratively
transitive
Forms:
form: knocks into a cocked hat
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: knocking into a cocked hat
tags: participle
present
form: knocked into a cocked hat
tags: participle
past
form: knocked into a cocked hat
tags: past