- knock someone back (an amount of money)
- knock someone back (an amount of money)to cost an amount of money. •
That trip to Spain knocked me back almost $3,500.
•How much did that new furniture knock us back?
Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.
knock someone back (an amount of money)
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