Daggers
To speak daggers, To look daggers. To speak or look so as to
wound the sensibilities.
“I will speak daggers to her; but will use none.” —Shakespeare:
Hamlet, iii. 2.
Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894 More on Daggers from Fact Monster:
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