knacker's

He obtained horse cadavers from a nearby knacker's yard and hung them in his studio to draw and study as they decomposed, layer by layer.

Browser's Delight Henrik Bering 2011

• Good news, finally, for at last Britain along with the United States and France is to have an aircraft carrier in the Mediterranean – hooray for HMS Invincible: on her way to a knacker's yard in Turkey.

Hugh Muir's diary 2011

Vivi, deciding that they should use a half-bred unregistered throw-out as their entry to the sales, had bought one from a knacker's yard for peanuts; a bay with a white star, common as dirt.

The Elvis Latte Allie Dresser 2010

I certainly think that the Trojan Horse POTUS is destined for the knacker's yard; he has promised too much to too may interests, both vested and ideological.

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

It looks to me as if the Cardinal was denied his swan song and that, now, Perl is being sent to the knacker's yard.

Motu Proprio "Ecclesiae Unitatem" - in English 2009

Duncanian presents it as a two horse race, arguing that on the very ground Pascalus chooses his own favourite is fit only for the knacker's yard.

THE HALLS OF PENTHEUS -- PART TWO Hal Duncan 2007

But we're digressing again while others are doing their best to stop the government from legalising the legal formulation of a human knacker's yard in addition to semi-legalising contraceptive factories: i.e. the disposal of 250,000 or so, per annum, fully formed foetuses, via the 'toxic' waste bins of UK hospitals and Harley Street clinics under Abortion Act 1967 as amended by The Law of Unintended (?)

On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2008

If Slippery JackAndrew Davies gets to lead the Assembly it will confirm all of our worst fears that this former Labour Party appointee/apparatchik who doesn't know his orse from his elbow is the lamest of a tired, talentless, bunch of hock-jockeys who all ought to be put out to the knacker's yard.

A view from Rural Wales Glyn Davies 2007

They died here, husbands forbidden to speak with their wives, and all half starved until their corpses were carried in a knacker's cart to a pauper's grave.

Sharpe's Prey Cornwell, Bernard, 1944- 2001

Bagging groceries, running errands, delivering newspapers, pumping gas, and peddling magazine subscriptions, the boys saved up their quarters to buy a derelict car, rescued from the knacker's, and have it towed home.

WASN'T THE GRASS GREENER A Curmudgeon's Fond Memories Holland, Barbara 1999