cut-throat
严酷的,严刑峻法,严刑逼供,严酷
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Definitions
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- : a person who cuts the throat of another; a murderer.
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- : murderous.
- : ruthless: cutthroat competition.
- : pertaining to a game, as of cards, in which each of three or more persons acts and scores as an individual.
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Examples
In this cockamamie get-rich scheme, would they all issue an apology if he cut a check?
I took out my knife, my Ka-Bar, and knocked his teeth out, but they fell into his throat.
My understanding was that according to most Christian beliefs, being trans or gay was a sin, cut and dry.
Crew members had to cut through the ice on the streets to get shots.
In response to the screen quota cut, South Korea established a “cinema tax” on the box office.
If the "Y" Beach lot press their advantage they may cut off the enemy troops on the toe of the Peninsula.
A sob rose in her throat, and broke from her lips transformed into a trembling, sharp, glad cry.
At the reserve bank they may borrow as a standing right and not as a favor which may be cut off.
It occurred to him then, for the first time, that a third resource was open—he might cut the rope, and let the kite go free!
My thought was to keep pushing in troops from "W" Beach until the enemy had fallen back to save themselves from being cut off.