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stick the knife in

To say or do something deliberately and unnecessarily malicious.
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Bengali speaks with courtly floweriness even when sticking the knife in, and Thompson's well-meaning British bluntness was not appreciated.

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Submitted on July 10, 2018

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bıçağı sok

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