"under the knife" meaning in All languages combined

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Prepositional phrase [English]

IPA: /ˌʌndə ðə ˈnaɪf/ [Received-Pronunciation], /ˌʌndəɹ ðə ˈnaɪf/ [General-American] Audio: En-us-under the knife.oga [General-American]
Rhymes: -aɪf Etymology: A reference to the situation of a patient lying on an operating table while a surgeon stands over them and operates using a surgical cutting tool (typically a scalpel). Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} under the knife, {{en-PP}} under the knife
  1. (informal) Chiefly preceded by a form of go: undergoing a surgical procedure; into surgery. Wikipedia link: Puerto Cortés, United States Army Tags: informal Categories (topical): Surgery Translations (undergoing a surgical procedure): 開刀 (Chinese Mandarin), 开刀 (kāidāo) (Chinese Mandarin), under kniven (Danish), onder het mes (Dutch), leikkaukseen (Finnish), passer sur le billard (French), sur le billard (French), unters Messer (German), unter dem Messer (note: depending on the verb used) (German), faoi scian (Irish), sotto i ferri (Italian), under kniven (Norwegian), bajo el cuchillo (Spanish), under kniven (Swedish), dan y gyllell (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-under_the_knife-en-prep_phrase-EFeGozj9 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Finnish links with redundant wikilinks

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          "sense": "undergoing a surgical procedure",
          "word": "sotto i ferri"
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      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "undergoing a surgical procedure",
      "word": "開刀"
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      "sense": "undergoing a surgical procedure",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "undergoing a surgical procedure",
      "word": "sotto i ferri"
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      "sense": "undergoing a surgical procedure",
      "word": "under kniven"
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      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "undergoing a surgical procedure",
      "word": "bajo el cuchillo"
    },
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      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "undergoing a surgical procedure",
      "word": "under kniven"
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    {
      "code": "cy",
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      "sense": "undergoing a surgical procedure",
      "word": "dan y gyllell"
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