Avoid old lorry between harbour and west, badly hit (4,2,5,4)
I believe the answer is:
have no truck with
'west badly hit' is the definition.
I know nothing about this answer so I can't tell whether this works.
'avoid old lorry between harbour and' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
'old' could be 'o' (common abbreviation eg in OE for Old English) and 'o' is present in the answer.
'lorry' could be 'truck' (I've seen this before) and 'truck' is found in the answer.
'harbour' could be 'haven' (synonyms) and 'haven' is found in the answer.
'and' could be 'with' and 'with' is present in the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...
Can you help me to learn more?