phrasal
1.
a. : to utterly demolish : ruin
knocked all our plans into a cocked hat
threatened to knock the industry into a cocked hat
b. : to prove to be false : utterly disprove
a theory that was finally knocked into a cocked hat
2. : to surpass eminently : excel by far
something that'll knock all the other achievements of man into a cocked hat — John Galsworthy