knock back

VERB
  1. cost a certain amount
    My daughter's wedding set me back $20,000
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How To Use knock back In A Sentence

  • This is the season to be jolly and maybe also to bewail our lack of will power as we knock back a few too many drinks at the office party and generally overindulge all our vices from smoking to eating.
  • I was startled in the UK at the piggish drinking habits of my colleagues, and eventually realised it was because they were trying to knock back as much as possible before 11.
  • Serve it well chilled to knock back the sweetness further. Times, Sunday Times
  • If he wants to knock back our amendments, we won't be budging an inch.
  • The popular consensus is that the only way to effectively take the edge off the morning after is to drink seven or eight gallons of water before you go to sleep and maybe knock back a couple of aspirins while you're at it.
  • Knock back then half-fill little baba moulds. Times, Sunday Times
  • Drenched with sweat like nowhere else I've ever been, regularly abandoning planned trips to local museums, we stagger around, too exhausted to even knock back all of the cyclo touts and motorbike taxis.
  • Serve it well chilled to knock back the sweetness further. Times, Sunday Times
  • Now a visitor dressed, she will give guests knock back, clenching her feet, a set of programs down to 25 minutes.
  • He didn't knock back a pitcher of lemonade before he staggered onto the stage.
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