the knives are out
UKused to refer to a situation when people are being unpleasant about someone, or trying to harm someone:
The knives are out for the former president.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Not liking
- abhor
- abide
- abominate
- antipathy
- averse
- go off sb/sth
- hate
- hate sb's guts idiom
- have a problem with sth/sb idiom
- have a thing about sth/sb idiom
- leave
- not know what sb sees in sb/sth idiom
- not take kindly to sth idiom
- phobic
- problem
- put
- put sb off (sth/sb)
- see sth in sb/sth
- thing
- turn
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