knocking shop

knocking shop

A brothel. Primarily heard in UK. Everyone knows that old tavern used to be a knocking shop.
See also: knock, shop
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • knock-shop
  • hock shop
  • hockshop
  • shut up shop
  • Caddy
  • happy shop
  • hang a louie
  • all over the shop
  • be all over the shop
  • fill your boots
References in periodicals archive
QUESTION: what would you get if you turned the Big Brother house into a knocking shop? Answer: Geordie Shore.
A Toon full of trollops
Here, as a relief from all this exhibition's sweatiness, is dusky shadow, which acts as a poignant foil to the knocking shop in which the scene of concupiscence takes place.
Rubens: the master butcher: the urgent physicality of the painter's early work mirrors the speed with which the National Gallery, London, has mounted 'Rubens: A Master in the Making', writes David Howarth, but has the artistic context been neglected in the haste?
I'm certainly not going to be running a knocking shop. This sort of fantasy role play is very big in Germany and it is getting more popular in England too.
We're not after any weirdos
Whether it's in a Marbella knocking shop - remember Shearer as Mary Poppins, Geordie women as dogs etc.
Macca: Brothel creep Freddy must be bonkers to knock United
I doubt she'd be thrilled to discover her house is being used as a knocking shop, far less than somewhere illegal drugs are being brought in.
New flatmate brings men home; Just Joan CATCH UP ON JUST JOAN ONLINE www.dailyrecord.co.uk/joanburnie
I'm sure the licensing clerks at Paisley council are convinced this is a glorified knocking shop - but know they can do nothing to outsmart the people behind the idea.
ANNA SMITH: Topless barbers
The at Slipping away from their two chaperones, Margaret (Bel Powley) gets drunk, has her drink spiked with Benzedrine and ends up making friends with the owner of a knocking shop. Meanwhile, Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon), gets lost on the buses and traipses around Soho while making eyes at an airman who's deserted.
A ROYAL NIGHT OUT; Movies
The only way they'll score is in a Spanish knocking shop."
Football: Awesome Arsenal: High old time at Highbury; TEARS STREAMED AS THE FANS HUGGED EACH OTHER
He's using your place like a knocking shop! I understand you not staying at his because some parents are funny about that, but surely he doesn't have a curfew!
HE NEVER STAYS ALL NIGHT WITH ME; DEAR COLEEN; Ireland's most straight-talking problem page
I don't quite understand why you're allowing him to use your house as his personal knocking shop.
Ashamed my son has left his family; JOAN'S SOLUTION
"It may be a nice house inside but I wouldn't fancy living next door to a knocking shop."
HOUSE OF THIN; pounds 60 a go knocking shop sets up next door to pounds 1 2 m narrowest home in Britain
'The hotel became notorious for being a bit of knocking shop in the 1970s and 80s,' revealed its director of communications Simon Willis.
Weekend: Hotel at the heart of Ripper hunting ground
Cannes is a cultural con, Emily.And sleazier than a TOWIE-themed Bangkok knocking shop with Edwina Currie as madame.
TRASH CANNES
Slipping away from their two chaperones, Margaret (Bel Powley) gets drunk, has her drink spiked with Benzedrine and ends up making friends with the owner of a knocking shop. Meanwhile, Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon), gets lost on the buses and traipses around Soho while making eyes at an airman who's deserted.
A ROYAL NIGHT OUT Cert [...]
To put it bluntly, this knocking shop features ladies of the night who are happy to parade in lingerie made of the national flags of participating teams.
Diego one-liner has Grobbelaar diving for cover; BIG GAME HUNTER