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单词 to go for the throat
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to go for the throat
d. to go for the throat and variants: to launch an aggressive or ruthless attack on an adversary; to target an adversary's weakest or most vulnerable point.
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1869 Dubuque (Iowa) Daily Herald 6 Apr. The radicals yesterday helped to slaughter their own men, the Allison men going for the throat of Morhiser.
1905 Times 6 May 15/5 The most outspoken partisanship, urging upon the Society, ‘to go for the throat of the Secretary to the Board of Trade and bring him to his senses’.
1955 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Trib. 22 Oct. 16/2 Israel will ‘go for the throat’ of surrounding Arab nations.
1985 G. Benford Artifact vi. iv. 430 Yeah, ol' Carmody doesn't wimp out on you. He goes straight for the throat.
2006 D. Trussoni Falling through Earth (2007) iv. 64 My uncles..had no sense of diplomacy. They went for the throat.
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