stick the knife in (English, verb)
expansion: stick 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)
Senses:
glosses: To say or do something deliberately and unnecessarily malicious.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: sticks the knife in
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: sticking the knife in
tags: participle
present
form: stuck the knife in
tags: participle
past
form: stuck the knife in
tags: past