dip your pen in gall

dip (one's) pen in gall

To write something that conveys one's animosity, anger, or malice. The critic must have dipped his pen in gall before writing that very negative review.

dip your pen in gall

write unpleasantly or spitefully.

Gall is another word for bile, the bitter secretion of the liver; it is used in many places in the Bible as a metaphor for bitterness or affliction. See also wormwood and gall (at wormwood).

词组	dip your pen in gall
释义	dip your pen in gall dip (one's) pen in gall To write something that conveys one's animosity, anger, or malice. The critic must have dipped his pen in gall before writing that very negative review. See also: dip, gall, pen Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. dip your pen in gall write unpleasantly or spitefully. Gall is another word for bile, the bitter secretion of the liver; it is used in many places in the Bible as a metaphor for bitterness or affliction. See also wormwood and gall (at wormwood). See also: dip, gall, pen Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: dip (one's) pen in gall gall give the glad eye at (one's) doorstep at doorstep beget hate begets hate hate breeds hate at (one's) expense butthurt
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