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"knackered" Definitions
  1. [not usually before noun] extremely tired synonym exhausted, worn out
  2. too old or broken to use

63 Sentences With "knackered"

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Dave Cook Insert your own joke about a knackered banger being banged about by a couple of knackered bangers.
Self-described "knackered journalist, knackered mum" Robyn Wilder pens a newsletter full of parenting hacks, interviews with parents doing things differently, guest columns, recipes, and night-feed reading.
Knackered, cross, they bitch and bicker, Like you and me.
"At that time I [was] knackered," she recounts of the period.
"I was knackered," he starts with a laugh, before changing tack.
Before, they were relying on knackered, taped-together kit borrowed from the Fat Whites.
The new slang includes ghastly (horrible), cheerio (goodbye), knackered (tired), and jammy (very lucky).
I manage to catch the tail end of the session, but I am feeling completely knackered.
A hundred or so front kicks later, Romero was knackered and Whittaker was the middleweight champion.
" The men of his father's generation, Daltrey writes, were "knackered": "They were strangers in their own homes.
Anyway, the "firsts" tend to be the things that we bother to store in our knackered brains.
Watch for ten minutes before I decide I'm too knackered, and I end up going to bed around midnight.
I moved a load of heavy stuff and before I knew it I was knackered out of my mind.
"I am absolutely knackered" was a phrase I would often hear at school or work on a Monday morning.
What's more, it made a hell of a fucking racket, coming off like some knackered 18-30 hotel ceiling fan.
A third, who looks a little like Eddie Large, wears a knackered old biker jacket and a ripped T-shirt.
So you've explored the festival, made friends with the locals, and gotten trollied a few times, and now you're knackered.
By 5 PM I'm knackered, on my sixth espresso, with the Stone Roses on my speakers, just getting through the dinner service.
"Classic Reeboks, knackered Converse, or trackie bottoms tucked in socks" were all sights I saw daily, and now they'd been immortalised by rockstars.
"I've got the original vinyl, but my record player is knackered, so I hadn't listened to the album for years," Rex tells me.
Not just using a specific vintage guitar, but feeding something through a knackered old cassette recorder to see what it does to the sound.
If so, he wouldn't only have missed the sight of a knackered Nixon shaking hands with the new president-elect in Key Biscayne, Florida.
"It's done now," he says, resting a knee on the arm of a knackered chesterfield sofa and shaking his short ponytail with a pained smile.
OF THE things that investors and bosses have come to like about Donald Trump, the most important is his promise to redraw America's knackered corporate-tax system.
Mounting a knackered horse and dragging a fat old farmer, Sancho, in his wake, the don declares undying love for an ordinary girl out of her depth.
Certainly, at a summit in Hanoi in February, Mr Kim miscalculated by offering to close only a knackered plutonium reactor in exchange for a lifting of international sanctions.
When we were recording we played live in the room and without vocals because I didn't want to knacker my voice like I had knackered it from touring.
Right on cue, Thomas Cook Airlines, a British carrier, has been forced to apologise to a pilot who refused to take to the air because he was too knackered to fly.
"She had a knackered old camper van and we'd be working in the garages on tanks and she'd come round and sell you a bacon butty," the 32 Regiment soldier reminisces.
The puzzle put the ATLANTIC OCEAN vertically down the middle of the grid, with Britishisms and their American "translations" occupying symmetrical spaces on either side, such as KNACKERED across from EXHAUSTED.
Should you find yourself raising a child in the United Kingdom, you might find yourself using words like "posset" (spit-up), dummies (pacifiers), and, of course, "knackered," which means that one is tired.
Where the old ground had knackered turnstiles, a notorious sloping pitch and moss on its corrugated facade, the Hive has an on-site Starbucks, which for a lower-league side feels a bit unreal.
"A Certain Romance" is worth a mention too for its romanticized assessment of the area Turner grew up in—a mining town where people wear knackered Converse, Reeboks and tracksuit bottoms tucked in socks.
By the time Geri left in '98, we were all knackered, we were so burnt out basically, and we'd lived on adrenaline for a year… But I was like 'I'll make a solo record!
I think after people go to a festival they feel pretty knackered, so this gives them the opportunity to come to island for four days afterwards before going back to England, so they're not just shaking in Split airport.
When you've been at a bunch of fucking event parties that you have to go to, then you go home at the end of the night and you're knackered and you flop onto the bed — we wanted to show that.
Sometimes it's nice—and necessary, now, amid the chaos that is the outside world—to sit at home with headphones on and reflect with some knackered artist who has been around for the same two decades of shit you have.
He had songs that perfectly communicated the laboriousness and desperation of a deep depression; he had songs that perfectly communicated the renewed levity that comes when that depression lifts; he had songs about obsession and sex and being absolutely knackered by everything.
"My mate says I never quite got the hang of my photo face," smirks Jamie T, nervously shuffling in a knackered cafe seat, fully aware that he's about to come head-to-head with his wide-eye nemesis in just a few minutes.
It is Mark Corrigan sticking a pencil in his ear to appear less uptight, and it is a Marks and Spencer's birthday card, and it is a knackered parent necking a pint in Brewers Fayre while their child almost suffocates in a ball pit.
When he's not dozing in and out of consciousness whilst choking on his own vomit in one of the club's dark corners, he's likely dipping his knackered pinky finger into his burlap sack-sized bag of steamy, humidified cocaine, forcefully jamming it up an unwary stranger's nostril.
It was an empty gesture towards adventurousness that feels doubly cheap in light of how grimly reluctant the manager was to let Marcus Rashford loose on opponents, turning a blind eye to the Manchester United youngster's obvious excellence and the face-clawingly dismal output on offer from a knackered Harry Kane.
"My hope is that more people will become familiar with the expressions we chose for the game, enjoy them with their friends, and that I won't have to explain what 'knackered' means," said British actress Elizabeth Hurley, who helped choose the selections for the new Words With Friends 2 royal social dictionary.
Naturally you'll have to take bits of it apart at some point to restock the milk and cereal, and the actual act of building one of your own will probably take ages to, but it'd be nice to have some automated cereal-based-bliss on those mornings when you're too knackered to do things yourself.
To the extent where you will absolutely just pause from time to time, gently strolling left to right and back again, drinking in a scene that is so close to photo real that it's like a stretch of northern Scandinavia fell into your TV. You'll rarely have seen rocks and moss, ferns and bark, knackered tire rubber, and rusted metal look quite so touchable in a video game.
Many former players hirpling around with knackered knees and hips have reason to rue the indiscriminate use of drugs.
"Knackered" meaning tired, exhausted or broken in British and Irish slang is commonly used in Australia, Ireland, Newfoundland, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom. In southern parts of Australia if something is rendered useless or broken by an inept person it is said to be 'knackered'. "Knackers" is also a British/Australasian vulgar slang for testes,e.g. Thomas in The Virgin Soldiers although this usage may be derived from nakers – small medieval kettle drums which were typically played in pairs suspended from a belt around the waist.
According to Williamson, "Only sheer courage got him home. He was knackered but it was almost as good as winning." The following year, Master Oats was taking part in a hunt when he sustained a serious tendon injury which ended his racing career.
Los Angeles Times. Throughout those years, Birch struggled with constant headaches, dizziness, vertigo, and severe pain throughout his body. According to friend and colleague Nigel Olsson, he saw "hundreds of physicians, but nothing could reverse the damage which was already done. His entire body was knackered.".
Technically everything that could go > wrong did go wrong. The tape machine broke down, there were repeated mixing > console failures and the speakers were damaged because of the unusually low > frequencies of the bass notes. After 12 days of this we were completely > knackered. Fortunately, after a two-day break in the countryside a new start > brought a breakthrough.
While some slang words and phrases are used throughout Britain (e.g. knackered, meaning "exhausted"), others are restricted to smaller regions, even to small geographical areas. The nations of the United Kingdom, which are England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, all have their own slang words, as does London. London slang has many varieties, the best known of which is rhyming slang.
The Goya prints referred to his Disasters of War set of 80 etchings. The duo named their newly defaced works Insult to Injury. BBC described more of the exhibition's art: "Drawings of mutant Ronald McDonalds, a bronze sculpture of a painting showing a sad-faced Hitler in clown make-up and a major installation featuring a knackered old caravan and fake dog turds."Sumpter, Helen.
He was Espanyol's second-choice behind Carlos Kameni for the 2006–07 season, but was the regular in the club's run to the final of the UEFA Cup,Iraizoz hoping for career highlight; UEFA, 26 April 2007Iraizoz 'knackered' but proud; UEFA, 17 May 2007 notably excelling in the quarter-final second leg away to S.L. Benfica (0–0 draw, 3–2 on aggregate). During his time in Barcelona, Iraizoz learned to speak fluent Catalan.
He wanted to focus on the established characters Tilly Evans (Lucy Dixon) and George Smith (Steven Roberts) and their transition into university. They will move into a "knackered old student house" which replaces the old student halls set. Jade approaches Esther Bloom (Jazmine Franks) at a Freshers party and introduces herself. She ignores Tilly and later turns up inside her house revealing that landlord Dennis Savage (Joe Tracini) has let her move in.
Spizer, p. 260. Leng writes of this performance of "Dark Horse": "Anyone wondering what Harrison's voice sounded like on the Dark Horse Tour need look no further: this track was cut only days before the first date in Vancouver. Although the band sounded good, his voice was in shreds ..."Leng, p. 155. Later, Harrison would admit he was "knackered" by the time he arrived in Los Angeles, having simply taken on too much over the previous year.
Throughout filming, Hoyle and Ryder remained in character, improvising their scenes around a basic narrative structure rather than using a script. Hoyle told a reporter that they "wanted everything to feel like real time... As soon as you woke up, the cameras would be on you. I look knackered." During filming, he contracted swine flu, but insisted that all he needed was a 30-minute break before filming, attributing his ability to continue acting to adrenaline.
The Age's John Westwood branded Jim "the steady father figure of Ramsay Street". Westwood also thought the character was "beleaguered" and observed: "Jim always seems a bit knackered, and small wonder, because if he is not taking philosophical stick from his serious son Paul, little daughter Lucy is pelting him with cheek about his love life." In 2007, Amazon.co.uk reported that they had sold more DVDs of films and television shows featuring Dale than any featuring other ex-Neighbours cast members.
Peter Loader said May was completely out of order while Micky Stewart suggested that May should have been aware that "Jim was knackered". Godfrey Evans, who played for Kent in the match, said that Laker was "ill-supported by May". Raman Subba Row blamed May for his "management style" which was not at all people-oriented, unlike that of Stuart Surridge who was a "people person" and "down to earth". On the other hand, Arthur McIntyre blamed Laker as a batsman in the Kent match because he "holed out" and made a more general comment about Laker "crying wolf" over injuries to his fingers.
They borrow from a wide source – early psychedelia, Beefheart, through to even Essential Logic – but furrow the influences into a style which demands to be taken on its own merits. Comparisons are so limited that I find it hard to avoid the much mistaken and inflexible term 'progressive'. Further to this, their music, whether cautious or dissipated, is always underlined by a devilishly impulsive awareness and wicked streak of unpredictability. They play a serious game of musical hide and seek… In a set that switched with as much consistency as a knackered fluorescent light the Transmitters were always compelling and somehow evaded a possible self-destructive urge.
Inspired by Broadrick's childhood in industrial Birmingham, Rise Above's sound is characterized by heavy distortion, kinetic beats, and noisy production. In keeping with the JK Flesh evolution, nearly all elements of industrial metal are gone from this album and replaced with starker, more synthetic sounds. John Twells of Fact wrote, "The doomy, distorted grind of Godflesh and Jesu is certainly still present, but woven into a wheezing 4/4 template that doesn’t sound a million miles from Andy Stott’s patented 'knackered house' or a Surgeon record on the wrong speed being played through a broken car stereo." Chang Terhune of Igloo Magazine also drew comparisons between Rise Above and the work of Andy Stott.
Jewel continued to work in television for many years, and in 1991 he appeared in an episode of the BBC hospital drama series Casualty in which he was able to use one of his famous catchphrases, referring to a nurse as "a knock-kneed, knackered old nose bag" – a term he had regularly bestowed upon Nellie. Harry Driver, who created and wrote many episodes of the series with Vince Powell, died on 25 November 1973, just nine months after the series ended, aged only 42—marking the abrupt end of a successful 13-year writing partnership with Powell. Edward Malin, who played Walter, was the first of the cast to die, on 1 March 1977, four years after the show ended.
Playing her brother Eli was the comedian Jimmy Jewel and the series was centred on their characters' love-hate relationship as they tried to run their small family business, Pledge's Purer Pickles. As they bickered onscreen and traded insults such as "knocked-kneed knackered old nosebag" and "big girl's blouse", the insults continued off-screen as the two performers disliked each other intensely. A film version of the series was made by Hammer Films in 1972Nearest and Dearest (1972 film) (the same year she was a subject of This Is Your Life when she was surprised by Eamonn Andrews). Later in the series, Baker began having trouble remembering her lines and had to rely on cue cards and prompts from her co star Madge Hindle, who would whisper her next line to her.
The role of the pairing whip remained a crucial one as the government's slim majority turned to a minority through defeats at by- elections, and Dormand was credited with a central role in helping the government stay in office, telling Wilson that he was too "bloody knackered at the end of the day" to record the events surrounding the late-night votes. In January 1978 Dormand was named in a report by the Serjeant-at-Arms as having assisted in blocking one of the Division lobbies in an attempt to prevent a vote on part of the Government's legislation to devolve power to Scotland.Michael Hatfield, "Ministers plan moves to salvage Scotland Bill as Tories prepare for battle in the Lords", The Times, 28 January 1978, p. 2. On free votes he did not always help the Government.

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