kill one's darlings (English, verb)
expansion: kill one's darlings (third-person singular simple present kills one's darlings, present participle killing one's darlings, simple past and past participle killed one's darlings)
Senses:
glosses: To destroy things or characters, particularly in art, of which one is fond, often reluctantly in order to improve one's artistic output.
tags: idiomatic
Forms:
form: kills one's darlings
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: killing one's darlings
tags: participle
present
form: killed one's darlings
tags: participle
past
form: killed one's darlings
tags: past
form: murder one's darlings
tags: alternative