twist the knife in the wound
turn the knife in the wound

Just twisting the knife in the wound, that's what he would be doing.

But she wasn't finished twisting the knife in the wound.

Nevertheless, the inquisitor did not flinch from twisting the knife in the wound.

But the Frenchman's other digs had hit the mark, and his final speech was designed to twist the knife in the wound.

Why twist the knife in the wound?

Bang on cue when things were going wrong, there was Mullett ready to twist the knife in the wound.

He knew what happened to men and women whose notion of themselves had become degraded; he'd seen how traitors worked with a special spite, with a fury that was reserved for themselves as they twisted the knife in the wound.

Belbo touched my arm: "It's the ramsing, the horn of the Thugs around the sacred banyan..." My reply was cruel, because I didn't realize he was joking precisely to repress other associations, and it must have twisted the knife in the wound.

Turning the knife in the wound hurt, but she couldn't help herself.

Turning the knife in the wound, as it were? "

I turned the knife in the wound.

Narviat knew how to turn the knife in the wound, Oh no, don't do this to me.

And he added, turning the knife in the wound, 'Christ almighty!

Would it be turning the knife in the wound if Simon met his father's successor with a view to selling his home to him?

"Well, there's that eldest daughter of those friends of his," said Celine, turning the knife in the wound.

To turn the knife in the wound, he had mentioned to her the name of a local pub that had refused her singing act.

Billy turned the knife in the wound, watching as its puffy lips parted and it regained its former circularity.

'Con Gallagher is the father,' she went on blandly, brutally, turning the knife in the wound, watching the pain intensify.

This was the most spectacular humiliation suffered by any major European state during the seventeenth century; and Louis did not hesitate to turn the knife in the wound.

She longed to ask him about the girl he was going to marry as they drove back; it would turn the knife in the wound and she couldn't frame the words.

Any newspaper which is allowed to publish in Burma is approved by the junta, which is thus turning the knife in the wound it has tried to inflict on us through Mr Nicols' death.

The wish to know as much as possible about him even though it was turning the knife in the wound caused her to ask Nils Vardal, a tough young Norwegian with an open face and a steady gaze, whose hand she was dressing: "No one ever mentions Ola Julsen.