Examples of 'twisting the knife' in a sentence

Meaning of "twisting the knife"

twisting the knife - This phrase is often used metaphorically to describe someone making a bad situation even worse, typically by exacerbating someone's suffering or discomfort
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  • present participle of twist the knife

How to use "twisting the knife" in a sentence

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twisting the knife
You are twisting the knife right now.
For once in your life, you could support me, instead of always twisting the knife.
Keep twisting the knife.
You were too young to remember, but she had a natural talent for twisting the knife.
Of you twisting the knife in me.
You come along with your biological clock thing… and it was like twisting the knife.
She was just twisting the knife one last time.
Mylar balloons and a bottle of champagne - that 's just twisting the knife.
You shared a love of twisting the knife into one another.
Twisting the knife this afternoon?
Oh, now you are just twisting the knife now.
You are twisting the knife a bit more than I intended.
Someone's spending their time twisting the knife in the wound.
You enjoy twisting the knife in a fresh wound, do not you?
Smiles and treacle while she 's twisting the knife in your back.

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Steve: Twisting the knife in his face.
You get off on it! You are twisting the knife right now.
And you twisting the knife further into my ex-husband -- it 's not on the itinerary.
Is that right? You are twisting the knife right now.
Mylar balloons and a bottle ofchampagne-- that's just twisting the knife.
No . She was just twisting the knife one last time.
Mylar balloons and a bottle of champagne… that's just twisting the knife.
Did you ladies have fun Twisting the knife this afternoon?
You know I have been through all this, stop, stop twisting the knife.
That 's just twisting the knife.
Yes, she paid, but that was after 36 hours of you twisting the knife.
Ouch… twisting the knife.
She was playing you, twisting the knife.
He 's twisting the knife.
You get off on it! You're twisting the knife now.
Thanks, Lou, for twisting the knife in the wound. You will die cooking shit food.
They're really twisting the knife.
You're twisting the knife now. You get off on it! That's not true.
Thank you . Keep twisting the knife.
She was just twisting the knife one last time . Mn ».
Thanks, Lou, for twisting the knife in the wound.

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Examples of using Twisting
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Twisting a little bit more to the light
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Examples of using Knife
That knife he pulled on me did not look so harmless
You just brought a knife to a gun fight
The knife is old and could be dirty
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