knocks about
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies calculates that taking account of previously announced tax increases knocks about £18bn from the value of the package, leaving it at £19bn.
From BBC ● May 26, 2022
This knocks about $10 off the white, black, and red colors while you’re saving $15 on the newer purple, pink, and blue colors.
From The Verge ● May 25, 2022
With a hearing in the tenants’ housing case approaching in early August, some reported receiving door knocks about rent.
From Slate ● Oct. 12, 2020
The old knocks about Brooks still hold today.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 13, 2014
But it is not too long; it never drags; and it knocks about in the cheerfullest "pit-box-and-gallery" fashion from first to last.
From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 2 To the Close of the 19th Century by George Saintsbury
