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Originally Posted by andyh2000
It's possible that 'knock [him/her/them] up' is still an idiom meaning 'wake up' 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 in that context before.
Andrew
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If I recall correctly, a 'knocker-up' was a person employed by management to ensure shift workers in a factory were woken up in time to arrive for their shift.
And a hare is a common(ish) rabbit-like animal in Europe - 'mad as a March hare', 'jugged hare'.