knife

See:
  • a knife in the back
  • an atmosphere that you could cut with a knife
  • at knifepoint
  • back in the knife drawer, Miss Sharp
  • before you can say "knife"
  • before you can say knife
  • bring a knife to a gunfight
  • cut through (something) like a (hot) knife through butter
  • don't bring a knife to a gunfight
  • get (one's)/the knife into (someone)
  • get the knife into someone
  • get your knife into somebody
  • go under the knife
  • have (one's) knife into (someone)
  • knife-edge
  • knifepoint
  • like a (hot) knife through butter
  • like a hot knife through butter
  • like a knife through butter
  • long knife
  • not the sharpest knife in the drawer
  • on a knife-edge
  • play a good knife and fork
  • pull a gun
  • pull a knife
  • pull a knife on (one)
  • put the knife in
  • put/stick the knife in
  • stick the knife in
  • turn the knife
  • turn/twist the knife
  • twist the knife
  • under the knife
  • you could cut (something) with a knife
  • you could cut it with a knife
  • you could cut the atmosphere with a knife
References in classic literature
At sight of a sharp knife and a cowardly Cockney the clinging of life to life overcomes all your fond foolishness.
Watching my chance, I stole five cans of the milk, and that night, when it was Louis's watch on deck, I traded them with him for a dirk as lean and cruel-looking as Thomas Mugridge's vegetable knife. It was rusty and dull, but I turned the grindstone while Louis gave it an edge.
The Sea Wolf
"I always sleep with the knife," said the little robber maiden.
When the mother had taken a sup at her flask, and was having a nap, the little robber maiden went to the Reindeer, and said, "I should very much like to give you still many a tickling with the sharp knife, for then you are so amusing; however, I will untether you, and help you out, so that you may go back to Lapland.
Andersens Fairy Tales
The thief would not suspect that there was a trap, and he would bring or send the knife, and say he bought it for a song, or found it in the road, or something like that, and try to collect the reward, and be arrested--wouldn't he?"
Wilson, there isn't any such knife, or your scheme would have fetched it to light.
Puddnhead Wilson
"If he's as much stunned with the lick and fud- dled with the rum as he had the look of being, he won't think of the knife till he's gone so far he'll be afraid to come back after it to such a place by him- self -- chicken-heart!"
Tom Sawyer
The knife would do not good on the ground there; it wouldn't vex Tom; and pride or resentment was a feeble passion in Bob's mind compared with the love of a pocket-knife.
The Mill on the Floss
His bow and arrows lay some distance away where he had dropped them while showing Sabor's hide to his fellow apes, so that he confronted Kerchak now with only his hunting knife and his superior intellect to offset the ferocious strength of his enemy.
Tarzan of the Apes
The fellow pitted against Juag was a veritable giant; he was hack-ing and hewing away at the poor slave with a villainous-looking knife that might have been designed for butch-ering mastodons.
Pellucidar
Then they and the priestesses formed in two lines, with their little golden cups in readiness to capture a share of the victim's lifeblood after the sacrificial knife had accomplished its work.
The Return of Tarzan
"Great God!" exclaimed Felton, on seeing the knife glitter in her hand.
Three Musketeers
When he had got a light he saw that she had taken away all her things and the baby's (he had noticed on entering that the go-cart was not in its usual place on the landing, but thought Mildred had taken the baby out;) and all the things on the washing-stand had been broken, a knife had been drawn cross-ways through the seats of the two chairs, the pillow had been slit open, there were large gashes in the sheets and the counterpane, the looking-glass appeared to have been broken with a hammer.
Of Human Bondage
By his side stood a man with a native knife dancing around and singing - all through the place were sounds of wailing and lamentation, and in front of his hut the King was lying, with an empty bottle by his side, drunk and motionless.
A Millionaire of Yesterday
With the knife, with the knife that men use, with the knife of the hunter, I will stoop down for my gift.
Jungle Book