wars to the knife
wars to the knife is the plural of war to the knife.
Meaning of war to the knife
Noun
war to the knife (countable and uncountable, plural wars to the knife)
- Mortal combat; fighting to the death.
- And not civil war as we knew it in England and you knew it in America, waged within certain limits of decency and humanity by disciplined forces, but civil war to the knife, altogether ferocious and anarchical, as if hell itself were let loose, as if a beautiful face were suddenly distorted with...1938 March, Ian D[uncan] Colvin, “The Case for Franco”, in The Atlantic Monthly, volume 161, number 3, Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 28 Oct...
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- Wars to the knife is the plural of war to the knife.
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