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Originally Posted by andyh2000
It's possible that 'knock [him/her/them] up' is still an idiom in some dialects of British English. At least it was about twenty years ago - I was on a trip and somebody I knew vaguely happened to be on the same trip in the same hotel. She asked me to knock her up in the morning - luckily I guessed what she meant although I hadn't come across the phrase before.
Andrew
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I have also heard this phrase used years ago.
Apache