knock together

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Idioms and Phrases

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

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It seemed like a worthy object, so I sent some carpenters over to knock together a long frame pavilion.

There's many on 'em, with claw-hammer coats and diamonds in their shirt-fronts, as hasn't got two quid to knock together.

A rising breeze caused the limbs of some trees to knock together; it swept Shultzs clammy cheek and made him shiver.

Immediately the flying-machine fell with a thump that made the gingerbread man's candy teeth knock together.

She was resolved not to look frightened, though her very knees would knock together at times.

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