knocked about

An asteroid minding its own business not too far from Earth is about to get knocked about by a visitor from our planet.

Gareth Leather, senior Asia economist at Capital Economics, said Malaysia's heavy fuel and transport subsidies have likely knocked about 1.5 percentage points off the country's inflation, which was just 2.3% in April.

Delta, with 177 cancellations, American, with 160, and United, with 116, knocked about 5 percent of their flights from their schedules.

Though in Craig’s brawny, bruiser continuation of the role, it can get pretty badly knocked about.

Flash flooding knocked about 20 homes off their foundations and washed several trailers away in Virginia’s mountainous western corner, where about 50 people were rescued and hundreds were evacuated.