throat-cutting

Fifty miles up country and twenty-thousand throat-cutting federals and rebels between him and me.

WHOSE BUSINESS IS TO LIVE 2010

Starting Saturday, for nine straight weeks English football's top division will tear itself apart, as some of the country's most storied clubs engage in 90-minute bouts of mutual throat-cutting, all for our collective amusement.

Life Is Tough at the Bottom Jonathan Clegg 2011

Mr. Moreno ended the discussion with a throat-cutting gesture.

At least we dodged this bullet 2008

The next warning was more chilling: the bad guys really wanted to get their hands on a female nurse—grab her—then make a throat-cutting video.

Paradise General Dr. Dave Hnida 2010

Flashman mentions the Cheyenne sign; among others he must have seen that day would be the sign for Sioux (a throat-cutting motion); Pawnee (fingers cocked at the head to denote "Wolf People"); Arapaho (nose pinched-they were known as the Smellers); and Cumanche, the Snakes (waving motion of the hand).

Isabelle Estelle Bruno 2010

Mr. Moreno ended the discussion with a throat-cutting gesture.

Archive 2008-06-01 2008

The next warning was more chilling: the bad guys really wanted to get their hands on a female nurse—grab her—then make a throat-cutting video.

Paradise General Dr. Dave Hnida 2010

Mick laid it out, the trick with the GPS transmitter, the throat-cutting of Mahoud, the night lost in slow approach and final assault, and the fact that if the marine was six or seven hours ahead of them, he was already there or damn near.

Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010

Other companies, hijacking, throat-cutting, all the rest of it.

Science Fiction, Fantasy, Horror: The Nemesis From Terra - Leigh Brackett Blue Tyson 2008

Mick laid it out, the trick with the GPS transmitter, the throat-cutting of Mahoud, the night lost in slow approach and final assault, and the fact that if the marine was six or seven hours ahead of them, he was already there or damn near.

Dead Zero Stephen Hunter 2010