stick the knife in
English
editPronunciation
editAudio (General Australian): (file)
Verb
editstick the knife in (third-person singular simple present sticks the knife in, present participle sticking the knife in, simple past and past participle stuck the knife in)
- (idiomatic) To say or do something deliberately and unnecessarily malicious.
- 2001, Ezra Greenspan, Jonathan Rose, Book History, volume 4, page 307:
- Bengali speaks with courtly floweriness even when sticking the knife in, and Thompson's well-meaning British bluntness was not appreciated.