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.
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.