knocking shop

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knocking-shop

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knocking shop (plural knocking shops)

(chiefly UK, slang) Brothel.
- 1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Epilogue,
  
  Always reminds me of one of the costlier knocking-shops, you know—"Maison Japonaise".

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