knocking shop

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• knocking-shop

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knocking shop (plural knocking shops)

1. (chiefly British, slang) Brothel.
   • 1945, Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited, Epilogue,

     Always reminds me of one of the costlier knocking-shops, you know—"Maison Japonaise".