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you could cut it with a knife
Idioms and Phrases
Alluding to something very thick, such as muggy air or a heavy accent; also, a very tense atmosphere. For example, The smoke was so thick you could cut it with a knife , or When I walked in they all stopped talking and you could cut the air with a knife . [ Colloquial ; late 1800s]Example Sentences
It’s a place that speaks of the good life, where the nostalgia is so thick you could cut it with a knife and butter your Wonder Bread with it.
And the funny thing was, in the scene there’s this underlying aggression between these two characters that is so — you could cut it with a knife.
We’re at the Chutzpah Deli in Fairfax Towne Center and the chutzpah is so thick you could cut it with a knife then smear it on a bagel.
At one point during her tenure, she said that arrogance in city government was so thick “you could cut it with a knife.”
The blooming flower had a “rotting corpse smell that was so thick and heavy you could cut it with a knife,” said John Connors, horticulture manager for the San Diego Botanic Garden.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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