How To Use Knockabout In A Sentence
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a knockabout old car
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The shape is sophisticated, but still quite knockabout, and the divinely soft calfskin creases in a pleasing way.
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These ranged from the traditional knockabout with a conker on a string, to a conkernut shy, a play on the coconut version, and wingseed throwing.
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Don’t believe you’d care for the kind of knockabout jobs I’ll have to get.”
Our Mr. Wrenn
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Behind the day's knockabout lay serious politicking over both policy and personalities.
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In one respect this is all good knockabout stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is good knockabout stuff, underpinned by necessary news values and bearing the unmistakable stamp of McKenzie, who seems to have found a métier again after a rather desultory time at Sky.
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This knockabout stuff seems to gee up the team for today's show.
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Even the squatter has a great deal of trouble to get hold of a good man as a shepherd or knockabout hand.
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Remember that we're not talking the stuff of PMQs knockabout on whether to spend a bit more and cut deficits a bit less.
Times, Sunday Times
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It takes something close to idiocy to think that Shaw's comedy Arms and the Man can be played as knockabout farce.
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Otherwise, it is fun knockabout stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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Don't believe you'd care for the kind of knockabout jobs I'll have to get.
Our Mr. Wrenn, the Romantic Adventures of a Gentle Man
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The audience loves it, but this is more than knockabout political rhetoric.
Times, Sunday Times
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The comedy element of this comedy-thriller comes almost entirely from Trixie's spectacular destruction of the English language: it's the sort of verbal knockabout stuff that I love, but I can see how some people could find it wearing over an entire movie.
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The mood can shift from knockabout comedy to taut thriller in a heartbeat, which keeps the viewer from becoming complacent: One never knows what the film is going to do next.
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Having written the song for her, Almond also performs guest vocals with Sally Timms on this single, in a rare show of light-hearted knockabout jollity.
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Across the kingdom the princes and princesses of pantomime are taking their bows and cracking one-liners in Christmas productions packed with Yuletide yarns and knockabout comic capers.
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The player - knockabout, sleeves-up, Green Valley tough guy - looks like a little dobber who's run to the headmaster.
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His writing was often deceptively whimsical, full of surreal creations and semi-fictional characters, but behind the knockabout humour lay some of the sharpest political commentary to be found in the educational press.
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Thus far the storyline has consisted of endless scenes in which rhubarbing menials stand around with folded arms, the mood pitched somewhere between the knockabout rustic japery of Straw Dogs and the apocalyptic menace of a Yeo Valley ad.
World Of Lather
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knockabout comedy
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The gladioli still fly all over the auditorium in the knockabout musical climax.
Times, Sunday Times
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This mix of ancient and modern stories lets him vary his theatrical styles from knockabout comedy to touching monologues.
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Guido is a very different show, he's "knockabout".
A Big Stick and a Small Carrot
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It's knockabout stuff aimed at sending the comrades back to their constituencies with a smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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In my lifetime, it has gone from being a nihilistic examination of the futility of life to being a surreal knockabout.
Times, Sunday Times
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There are arch literary allusions, plenty of knockabout energy, and two complementary personae on show.
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It may have gone down well with his party activists, but most members of the public will see it at best as political knockabout.
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Otherwise, it is fun knockabout stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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It was brilliant knockabout stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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In one respect this is all good knockabout stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is good political knockabout.
Times, Sunday Times
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But here his energetic, knockabout humour is totally infectious.
The Sun
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That he already has - courtesy of a knockabout image cultivated in an era when a lunch break durry, card games as you waited to bat, and several post-stumps beers wouldn't put you on the front pages.
NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
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If this sounds like an unlikely subject for knockabout comedy, it is, but Booker prize winner DBC Pierre almost pulls it off.
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There is, of course, more to it than its knockabout surface humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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These were lively, swift-moving knockabout sketches with a slightly risqué edge for its young audience.
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Above all, investors need to focus on the maths rather than the drama or poetry of political knockabout.
Times, Sunday Times
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This is good political knockabout.
Times, Sunday Times
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But, largely as a result of some ill-considered comments by Rhodri Morgan about climate change the day before, the debate degenerated into 'knockabout'.
Archive 2007-02-01
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Sir Alex Ferguson's side a real end of term knockabout feel and even less incentive for the neutral to tune in tonight.
Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
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David Wenham plays a knockabout, bumbling political adviser whose life is falling apart.
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Here he secured the "knockabout" horse, always kept saddled and bridled about the station for generally-useful work, and set off at a swinging canter up the paddock after his own steed.
Outback Marriage, an : a story of Australian life
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But here his energetic, knockabout humour is totally infectious.
The Sun
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Now, at one level this is all harmless political knockabout.
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The vaudeville act of "The Fighting Keatons" concentrated almost completely on the category known as knockabout farce.
Instant Education
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It is a fairy tale with links at various points to The Magic Flute, though there is less knockabout and more gentle humour in Henze's comedy.
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He is a jolly soul, smiling at every opportunity and applauding his opponents' shots as if having a knockabout in the park.
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It's knockabout stuff aimed at sending the comrades back to their constituencies with a smile.
Times, Sunday Times
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Above all, investors need to focus on the maths rather than the drama or poetry of political knockabout.
Times, Sunday Times
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That's where the plot begins and ends, but this is 20 minutes of hilarious knockabout, culminating in everyone getting drunk.
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While the first half is largely a shallow, knockabout comedy, the latter part is far bleaker.
Times, Sunday Times
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The audience loves it, but this is more than knockabout political rhetoric.
Times, Sunday Times
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Voters dislike intensely political knockabout in which each side is simply intent on blaming the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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Remember that we're not talking the stuff of PMQs knockabout on whether to spend a bit more and cut deficits a bit less.
Times, Sunday Times
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While the first half is largely a shallow, knockabout comedy, the latter part is far bleaker.
Times, Sunday Times
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There is, of course, more to it than its knockabout surface humour.
Times, Sunday Times
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For those of us brought up on the "he'll be disappointed with that" school of punditry beloved of former footballers, this kind of knockabout stuff is almost worth getting up – or staying up – for.
The ravelled mystery of David Lloyd's eyebrows
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It was brilliant knockabout stuff.
Times, Sunday Times
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This ending is typical of the series in its combination of crudity, cruelty, and revenge, and in the physical knockabout character of its comedy.
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People are so sick of the Punch and Judy knockabout which passes for political debate that they are voting with their backsides and refusing to make the trip to the ballot box.
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a knockabout overcoat
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Voters dislike intensely political knockabout in which each side is simply intent on blaming the other.
Times, Sunday Times
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There was another called a knockabout - (I am not very good on these things but apparently a knockabout knows every machine in the shop) and they tell me they were coming back to start training women in Canada with the same high hopes, and I am sure those hopes will be carried out, and the women of Canada will be as good as the women of England.
There Are No Civilians In London
