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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.
The virtue of the manhattan is its simplicity; even a distracted bartender can knock together a decent one.
Like mismatched matryoshka dolls, the plays knock together when they ought to nest.
Sure, I can, given a leisurely afternoon, knock together a chocolate babka from the “Jerusalem” cookbook.
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.
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