CUT SOMEONE'S THROAT Definition & Meaning

cut someone's throat

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.
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]

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Trainees were also shown how to cut someone's throat with the bayonet from an AK-47.

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“They cut someone’s throat, a white man.”

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They would come screaming “Banzaif' at the top of their lungs. They would not stop until you were dead or they were dead. Other times our enemies would just crawl into a foxhole with a knife, cut someone’s throat, and crawl out again. You might wake up to find that the man next to you had been killed that way. The Japanese moved so quietly and stealthily that our code name for them was Na’ats’ggst. That means “mouse.”

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Bradford Coroner's Court was told Mr Lad searched the internet on "how to cut someone's throat and executions" .

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Instead, “Everyone cut someone’s throat,” Houssien Elouassaki told his brother Abdel over the phone.

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