stick the knife in
English
Verb
stick 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.
- 2001, Ezra Greenspan, Jonathan Rose, Book History (volume 4, page 307)