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welkins2139
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 Posted: Tue Aug 29, 2006 8:42 pm Post subject: a lot of knocks |
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you've got a lot of knocks coming to you.
What does " knocks" mean?
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damon@English24/7
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Knocks can be interpreted as difficulties. So the sentence means that you have got a lot of trouble ahead.
It is pretty common to hear knocks used as "the school of hard knocks" which means something to the effect of hard-learned lessons or lessons learned through bitter experience. You should remember this saying when trying to decipher knocks used figuratively.
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