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The school of hard knocks

Idiom

To learn something the hard way (by experience)
Idiom

The problem with you is that you've been spoiled your whole life. You haven't had gone through the school of hard knocks to teach you what the world is really like!

I didn't go to college, but I went to the school of hard knocks. I learned everything by experience.

Synonym: The university of life
by Zami Karzai September 14, 2018
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knock monkey

1. (auto) A spark plug that has a mis-timed ignition.
2. (auto) The man at the garage who replaces spark plugs.
3. (biol) An unidentified pesky crawler.
4. A total idiot.
1. Mis-timed ignition...sounds like you got a knock monkey.
2. I went to see the knock monkey to get my spark plug fixed.
3. Better shake those knock monkeys outta your sleeping bag before you crawl in.
4. That guy is so stupid; what a knock monkey.
by Kelsey Hahn October 26, 2006
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Knock and Walk

When you knock something off of a shelve or hanger in a store and then quickly walk away instead of picking it up.
**Hanger falls**
"Crap!"
"Quick, Jane, do the Knock and Walk."
by LizVerde December 16, 2008
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knocked the fuck out

One who gets knocked the fuck out. This is commonly happening to a person in Gainesville, FL USA called Joe Mullett.
Joe Mullett really got knocked the fuck out at the party. The guy hit him and he lost 3 teeth and broke his nose!!!11

JOE GOT KNOCKED TEH FUCK OUT!!1
by Erik August 7, 2004
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ostrich knock out

The act of burying your face into the vaginal canal; simutaniously forcing one's fist into the rectum and striking oneself in the face, there by knocking oneself out.
I totally gave that bitch the ostrich knock out the other night.

I gave a sweet ostrich knock out.

Would you like an ostrich knock out?
by the real k-fed January 4, 2008
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Knock You Down

To fuck; screw; bang a chick.
by Stu February 13, 2005
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Knock the bottom out

Used to express that you would or have had sex with a woman.
Man I'd knock the bottom out of that chic.
or
We were fighting then twenty minutes later I'm knocking the bottom out of her.
by westley e truck December 28, 2008
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