knockabout

How To Use knockabout In A Sentence

• It's knockabout stuff aimed at sending the comrades back to their constituencies with a smile. Times, Sunday Times
• That he already has - courtesy of a knockabout image cultivated in an era when a lunch break durry, card games as you waited to bat, and several post-stumps beers wouldn't put you on the front pages. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
• If this sounds like an unlikely subject for knockabout comedy, it is, but Booker prize winner DBC Pierre almost pulls it off.
• There is, of course, more to it than its knockabout surface humour. Times, Sunday Times
• These were lively, swift-moving knockabout sketches with a slightly risqué edge for its young audience.
• Above all, investors need to focus on the maths rather than the drama or poetry of political knockabout. Times, Sunday Times
• This is good political knockabout. Times, Sunday Times
• But, largely as a result of some ill-considered comments by Rhodri Morgan about climate change the day before, the debate degenerated into 'knockabout'. Archive 2007-02-01
• Sir Alex Ferguson's side a real end of term knockabout feel and even less incentive for the neutral to tune in tonight. Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph
• David Wenham plays a knockabout, bumbling political adviser whose life is falling apart.