knacker's yard

English

Noun

knacker 's yard (plural knackers' yards)

That area of a slaughterhouse where carcasses unfit for human consumption are rendered down to produce useful materials such as glue.
(colloquial, figuratively) A place to send a person or object that is spent beyond all reasonable use.
He is only fit for the knacker's yard.

Translations

area of slaughterhouse where carcasses are dealt with

Czech: kafilerie (cs)
French: équarrissoir (fr)
German: Abdeckerei f (1), Kafillerei

See also

knacker

References

“knacker's yard” (US) / “knacker's yard” (UK) in Oxford Dictionaries, Oxford University Press.

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