Brewer's: Knocked into a Cocked Hat

Thoroughly beaten; altered beyond recognition; hors de combat. A cocked-hat, folded into a chapeau bras, is crushed out of all shape.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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