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= sword or dagger.
“Till my keen knife see not the wound it makes.”
Shakespeare: Macbeth, i. 5.
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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.