cut someone's throat

cut (someone's) throat

To bring about or be the cause of someone's ruin, downfall, or failure. That discount supermarket is cutting our throats, there's no way we can compete with their prices! Jim set out to cut his brother's throat after finding out that he'd been swindled.

cut someone's throat

1. Be the means of someone's ruin, as in Joe would cut her throat if she got in his way. One can also cut one's own throat, that is, spoil one's own chances, as in Alice cut her own throat by her repeated absences. This hyperbolic term alludes to actual murder (or suicide). [c. 1500]

2. cut one another's throats. Engage in destructive competition. For example, With their price war the two stores were cutting each other's throats. This usage gave rise, by 1880, to the idiom cutthroat competition, for vicious competitive practices.

See also: cut, throat

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.

See also:

cut (someone's) throat
cut throat
ruin of
the ruin of (someone or something)
point the bone at
point the bone at (someone or something)
have (someone's) blood on (one's) hands
have blood on hands
have blood on your hands
nail in coffin

References in periodicals archive

At a phone box on London's Regent Street, a person has called a helpline to say they are going to cut someone's throat. How thoughtful to give everyone the heads up.

ON TV; PICK of the DAY

BEST OF THE REST A phone call begins a fresh investigation for the Lyell team SILENT WITNESS BBC1, 9pm AT a phone box on London's Regent Street, someone has called a helpline to say they are going to cut someone's throat. How thoughtful to give everyone the heads up.

BEST OF THE REST

Kiir is unquestionably a cold-blooded leader who would cut someone's throat and smile as if he did not do anything.

Salva Kiir's cunning strategy

He swore and made a gesture as if to cut someone's throat, a court at Llandudno was told.

Fined for threats at kids' pool

You cut someone's throat when they have done something wrong to you.

lucifer-like, satanic demonic, diabolical.. a witch of deception; Knox blasted at Meredith appeal

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