knocks around

It knocks around £72bn off the value of the blue-chip index, taking it to 7044 points, its lowest level in seven weeks.

Before long, the consequences of that decision began popping up on door knocks around Iowa, said a person familiar with internal campaign responses in the state.

That’s only the first in a string of imbecilic choices that D, consumed by the desire to avenge the years-ago murder of his brother, makes as he knocks around the Hackney club scene and precipitates a gang war.

The word complicity knocks around my brain when I think about the way I’ve savored—even evangelized for—Chandler’s novels.

It glows like a sun inside my dimly lit bed canopy, and knocks around the night-lantern.