Definition of "knacker's yard" []

• That area of a slaughterhouse where carcasses unfit for human consumption are rendered down to produce useful materials such as glue. (noun)
• A place to send a person or object that is spent beyond all reasonable use. (noun)

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• "He lived half in town, half in country now, and kept an expensive house, but he was out of politics, having been sent to the knacker's yard at Reform."