It takes two to make a murder. There are born victims, born to have their throats cut, as the cut-throats are born to be hanged.
If I found in my own ranks that a certain number of guys wanted to cut my throat, I'd make sure that I cut their throats first.
There is Throats to be cut, and Works to be done.
thou art the best o' the cut-throats
The idea that you can't lose contact with the leaders has cut more throats than it has saved.
Cut throats, gun smoke, dope, and hoes, is what controls niggas souls.
How many men
Have spent their blood in their dear country's service,
Yet now pine under want; while selfish slaves,
That even would cut their throats whom now they fawn on,
Like deadly locusts, eat the honey up,
Which those industrious bees so hardly toil'd for.
In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and the champagne and the stars.
In business we cut each others' throats, but now and then we sit around the same table and behave-for the sake of the ladies.
Listen," I told him. "Don't be so tough so early in the morning. I'm sure you've cut plenty of people's throats. I haven't even had my coffee yet.
Yeah, the cut throats and the pigs. But who wants all that blood spilled, judge, huh? Isn't there a simpler way of not pissing off the big vipers?
Great men should drink with harness on their throats.
Suspicions that the mind, of itself, gathers, are but buzzes; but suspicions that are artificially nourished and put into men's heads by the tales and whisperings of others, have stings.
People that trust themselves a dozen miles from the city, in strange houses, with servants they don't know, needn't be surprised if they wake up some morning and find their throats cut.
And that's why, gentleman, if your little girl doesn't come up to scratch, it will be our painful duty to cut all your throats. Merely in a way of business, as you might say, and no offense, I hope.
If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism, if there were two, they would cut each other's throats, but there are thirty, and they live in peace and happiness.