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knock out
finish something quickly
To knock something out means to finish it quickly and efficiently.
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Have you finished those errands?
Yeah, I knocked them out this morning.
I knocked the report out before lunch, so I had time to check the figures.
The mistake everyone makes
Not: I knocked out it before lunch.
Say: I knocked it out before lunch.
With a pronoun object, put it between "knock" and "out"; noun objects can go either between or after the words.
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knock something out; knocked something out
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I knocked the report out before lunch, so I had time to check the figures.
Say it out loud two or three times, until it feels like yours.
knock out
finish something quickly
“I knocked the report out before lunch, so I had time to check the figures.”
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