The phrase "a knockout of a" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to describe something that is exceptionally impressive or outstanding, often in the context of performances, events, or achievements.
Example: "The concert was a knockout of a show, leaving the audience in awe."
Alternatives: "a stunning" or "an impressive".
It was a knockout of a dish.
On the contrary: "Sophisticated Ladies," the 1981 musical revue on stage at Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, is a knockout of a show.
And there are deaths by "Darwinian Events," including this account, published under the title "What a Knockout," of a young girl's death: "A car knocked down and killed a teenage girl while the driver was distracted by a billboard advertising women's lingerie.
I also asked him if Lights Out, a knockout of a show, can survive somewhat low ratings.
Created at a kitchen table distillery in a London home by a refugee from the world of finance, Sacred is a knockout of a gin, with all the hallmarks of a classic London Dry, but with its own unique vibe.
For all the Olympics' bizarre and faintly inhuman globo-pomposity, the events themselves deliver a knockout of a counterpoint difficult sporting things done brilliantly by athletes we mostly don't know, and done with an unpredictability and grace that upends all the graceless predictability of the plutocrats and brands putting the party on.
As shown in, we confirmed that the T-DNA insertion caused a knockout of AN gene in an- t1 mutant.
However, a knockout of an endosomal (EE/TGN) V-H + -ATPase mutant showed increased salt sensitivity, indicating the importance of the endosomal system for the salt tolerance.
Strand-specific libraries were prepared from some samples grown in normoxia and hypoxia, and for a wildtype strain and a strain carrying a knockout of an ortholog of the Candida albicans UPC2 transcription factor, a major regulator of ergosterol synthesis and the hypoxic response [ 22- 24].
The next step is to verify that the change is real through further experiments, which might include looking at the gene's related protein and moving to a mouse model with a knockout of that specific gene.
We created two lines of AKAP5 mutant mice: a knockout of AKAP5 (KO) and a mutant that lacks the PKA binding domain of AKAP5 (D36).
