ready for the knacker's yard

ready for the knacker's yard

In a state of ruin or failure due to having become useless or obsolete. Refers to a slaughterhouse for old or injured horses. Once a booming industry, home video rental was ready for the knacker's yard once streaming services became common.
See also: ready, yard
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • the knacker's yard
  • knacker
  • end up in the knacker's yard
  • gone goose
  • gone coon
  • gone coon, a
  • a gone coon
  • kick (someone or something) to the curb
  • nun
  • old gray mare
References in periodicals archive
In its first episode on December 9, 1960 Elsie Tanner (Pat Phoenix) scowled into a mirror saying: "Ee, Elsie, you're just about ready for the knacker's yard", a line he took from his aunt Lily.
A CHAMPION showjumper is at risk of receiving a PS150,000 legal costs bill over hotly disputed claims she sold one of her riding pupils an elderly horse that was "ready for the knacker's yard."
WHEN I first clapped eyes on Yaya Toure, I thought he looked like a player ready for the knacker's yard.
Despite its unmitigated success, after the cessation of hostilities it was felt the old warhorse was ready for the knacker's yard (it was basically a variant of a gun first issued in 1887), so the Brits decided to cast about for a more "modern" replacement.
The arrival of Pearl Bloodstock's ace sprinter from the Doncaster Breeze-Ups - "I t hink they felt sorry for me," he smiles - a long with the emergence of Qatar Racing's crack two-year-old Ahern and the sale of the gifted Barron-bred youngster Cosmic Chatter to Highclere Thoroughbreds has convinced the trainer that not only is he not ready for the knacker's yard but also that the world has yet to see the best of him.
"I'm not ready for the knacker's yard just yet," she said.
At just 28, I wasn't quite ready for the knacker's yard - or so I thought.
A shabby main stand and tiny dressing rooms along with a bumpy, rutted pitch and a decaying clubhouse mean that their tiny ground is ready for the knacker's yard.
``It's been a great piece of business and although he is 37 he certainly doesn't look ready for the knacker's yard yet.
She has them until they're ready for the knacker's yard (like her husband, hopefully), so there'll be tears at bedtime when she has to bid farewell to her current one.
"When I arrived here last year they said he couldn't do that and was ready for the knacker's yard.
GORDON RUSSELL, better known to his mates as Rusty, turns 37 next month - but he's not ready for the knacker's yard yet.
One repeat after another and an episode of Only Fools and Horses that shows this horse is ready for the knacker's yard.
ALEX RAE insists he is not yet ready for the knacker's yard - even though he's on the brink of his 36th birthday, writes DAVID LEGGAT.
After celebrating his first anniversary with an easy win, Warnock said: "Heidar was ready for the knacker's yard last year, so they tell me, but in my book he's always been a good player.