knock together

Idioms and Phrases

Make or assemble quickly or carelessly, as in We knocked together the bookcases in about half an hour . [Late 1800s]

Example Sentences

The ice cubes scrape and knock together.

From Literature

The virtue of the manhattan is its simplicity; even a distracted bartender can knock together a decent one.

From New York Times

Like mismatched matryoshka dolls, the plays knock together when they ought to nest.

From New York Times

Sure, I can, given a leisurely afternoon, knock together a chocolate babka from the “Jerusalem” cookbook.

From Salon

When bottles knock together in the breeze, they sound like chimes, and that is my favorite thing about this book: the image of those dangling bottles, all those terrible memories that somehow make music when they knock against one another.

From Literature

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