the knives are out

Meaning

1. the knives are out (for sb)

   the situation has become so bad that people are preparing to make one person take the blame, for example by taking away their job

In the movies · 4

• Look who Knives is hanging out with.Scott Pilgrim vs. the World2010
• Knives out, beaks bloody!Knives Out2019
• Oh, yeah! The one the Knives Out guy directed, right?Scream2022

Learn it in full scenes

• Knives Out2019
  • Police Question the Thrombeys
  • Blanc Introduces Himself to the Family
  • The Family Recounts Party Night

From the same entry

• like a knife through butter
• put the knife in
• turn the knife
• under the knife