knocking shop

"Perhaps she's turning it into a knocking shop," suggested Frost.

"Smells like a lime house knocking shop in here, Super."

He means it's one huge great knocking shop!

'This is a military hospital, not a knocking shop.

It used to be a high-class "knocking shop."

The marriage record will be filed at any moment and when our names hit the computer it's going to light up like a knocking shop on payday.

The rest of the time the grain and feed stores shut down and the drink and knocking shops opened.

"I told her, 'Oh, mother, don't you know that's the neighborhood knocking shop?'

'This is a bloody business here, not a bloody knocking shop where you pick your own hours.'

Setting up a knocking shop in Trebetherick?"

"A small party of the men we seek are even now disporting themselves in a knocking shop in Mermaid Court.

Other names for brothels include bordello, whorehouse, cathouse, knocking shop, and general houses.

'It's a high-class knocking shop on the Cor niche, sir, popular with some of the senior brass.

'Shore Lane is one big open-air knocking shop.

The bathroom looked like something you might expect to see in an old-fashioned movie star's home...or a high-class knocking shop.

"A cut-price knocking shop?"

Lord Neyal's minions, having finally finished the loading, were now obliged to hunt out the riverboat crews among the taverns and knocking shops of the waterfront.

"He's a great manager stuck in a crappy team," said Tzofit Grant after revelations that her husband visited a knocking shop that was under investigation from the old bill.

With the brouhaha surrounding John Terry and Portsmouth on to a 37th owner this season, the Israeli's trip to a local knocking shop receives less attention today than otherwise it might.

Always thought I might open an inn, or maybe a knocking shop . . . oh, a proper high class place, you don't have to look at me like that, nothin' like that stinking tent.

Brothels are known under a variety of names, including bordello, cathouse, knocking shop, whorehouse, strumpet house, sporting house, house of ill repute, house of ill fame, house of prostitution, and pleasure house.

Park Slopers like to spin tales about it, and when they do, they use words like "bordello," "brothel," "house of ill repute," "hot-sheets hotel," "no-tell motel" and, in one particularly evocative retro phrase, "neighborhood knocking shop."

There's Tony never out of the bath and Nutty never in it, one stinks like a knocking shop the other like a nest of polecats; I'm beginning to wonder how they'd look on the mantelpiece but don't let on I said so!