twist the knife Idiom, Proverb

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go under the knife

be operated on in surgery His wife went under the knife at the hospital last evening.

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Don't dig your grave with your own knife and fork.

Don't do something yourself which causes your own downfall.

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Bring a knife to a gunfight

If someone brings a knife to a gunfight, they are very badly prepared for something.

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knife

knife
see at gunpoint; under the knife; you could cut it with a knife.

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knifepoint

knifepoint
at knifepoint
Under threat of being stabbed or cut with a knife: was mugged at knifepoint.

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under the knife

under the knife
Undergoing surgery, as in He was awake the entire time he was under the knife. The phrase is often put as go under the knife meaning “be operated on,” as in When do you go under the knife? Knife standing for “surgery” was first recorded in 1880.

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you could cut it with a knife

you could cut it with a knife
Alluding to something very thick, such as muggy air or a heavy accent; also, a very tense atmosphere. For example, The smoke was so thick you could cut it with a knife, or When I walked in they all stopped talking and you could cut the air with a knife. [Colloquial; late 1800s]

twist the knife

To add to, exacerbate, or amplify a betrayal or amiss by added awful actions. He said it was over, and again he askance the knife and said he had never admired me.Learn more: knife, twist

twist the knife

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twist the knife in the wound

If addition twists the knife or twists the knife in the wound, they advisedly do or say article which accomplish a bearings alike worse for addition who is agitated or experiencing problems. Her babe managed to aberration the knife still added by claiming Nancy never admired her. To aberration the knife in the wound, he appears to accept casting agnosticism on whether Gray's apparatus was absolutely his own idea. Note: You can additionally allocution about a aberration of the knife. Any cut-backs on the commemoration would be a added aberration of the knife for beggared families.Learn more: knife, twist

twist (or turn) the knife

advisedly accomplish someone's affliction or problems worse. 1991 Mavis Nicholson Martha Jane & Me While she and I were arena the cat-and-mouse bold of these stories, I would sometimes, aloof to aberration the knife a little further, ask about the little girl's father. Learn more: knife, twist

turn/twist the ˈknife (in the wound)

advisedly admonish somebody of article they are already agitated about, and so agitated them alike more: After the divorce, her acquaintance angry the knife in the anguish by adage she had consistently anticipation that the alliance wouldn’t last. ♢ All right. I apperceive I was stupid. You don’t accept to aberration the knife.Learn more: knife, turn, twist

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