the knives are out

(British & Australian)

something that you say which means that a group of people are angry with someone and want to criticize them or cause problems for them (often + for ) The knives are out for Danvers following his team's poor performance in six successive games.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Washti	-	Biblical Hebrew
Dorofei	-	Russian
Carmen	KAHR-men (Spanish), KAHR-mən (English)	Spanish, English, Italian, Romanian
Marlowe	MAHR-lo	English (Rare)
Kamila	kah-MI-lah (Czech, Slovak), kah-MEE-lah (Polish)	Czech, Slovak, Polish
Sol (2)	-	Jewish