It's an expression I just heard used in a song "You're twisting the knife! But you're so pretty!". What does twisting the knife mean? Thanks!
2006-11-04 12:02:53 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference ➔ Words & Wordplay
If you were to stab somebody, it would hurt. And if you were to twist the knife around after you did it, it would hurt a lot more.
So what the song is saying is that someone is (emotionally), after some initial insult, hurting another person even more, probably deliberately.
2006-11-04 12:07:15 · answer #1 · answered by lisa450 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
when someone is stabbed, a lot of the time the damage really isnt done until the knife is moved or pulled out. In all cases when you stab someone and twist the knife you are doing the most damage possible with one strike.
2006-11-04 12:06:33 · answer #2 · answered by emanon1999 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it goes along with the expression of backstabbing. Someone stabs you in the back thats bad but even worse if they twist the knife.
2006-11-04 12:11:53 · answer #3 · answered by MM 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
well, ive heard it used with the stabbed in back expression
people will say "they're twisting a knife in my back" meaning basically that not only have they stabbed you in the back, they are twisting the knife around so that it hurts more
2006-11-04 12:08:29 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
It is an expression... I borrow money from you for a six month period.. then you state that I will have to pay you interest.. I would say... Wow.. now that is really twisting the knife meaning that you are causing me a type of additional (ADDITIONAL) pain..
2006-11-04 12:12:22 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
You are causing pain intentionally...."twisting the knife" as in it is bad enough you stabbed me but now you are also cruelly twisting the knife.
2006-11-04 12:05:35 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
speaking is particularly like "whats up replaced into up?" speaking is while u are "speaking" in front of greater than a number of ppl. Like a instructor speaks yet she talks while u choose help in my opinion. this is why u communicate for a speech!
2016-10-15 09:31:44 · answer #7 · answered by lithgow 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means not only hurting someone.. screwing them over, but , making sure you have you have hurt them to their max.. no recovering... you did all the damage that can be done...
2006-11-04 12:20:02 · answer #8 · answered by tootsie38 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
it means that someone is trying to hurt the other one even more than they already have hurt them
2006-11-04 12:12:59 · answer #9 · answered by Mary Smith 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋