"stick the knife in" meaning in English

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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sticking the knife in",
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        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck the knife in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
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    },
    {
      "form": "stuck the knife in",
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        "past"
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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  "lang_code": "en",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Ezra Greenspan, Jonathan Rose, Book History, volume 4, page 307:",
          "text": "Bengali speaks with courtly floweriness even when sticking the knife in, and Thompson's well-meaning British bluntness was not appreciated.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To say or do something deliberately and unnecessarily malicious."
      ],
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        [
          "deliberately",
          "deliberately"
        ],
        [
          "unnecessarily",
          "unnecessarily"
        ],
        [
          "malicious",
          "malicious"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To say or do something deliberately and unnecessarily malicious."
      ],
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        "idiomatic"
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      "form": "sticks the knife in",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "sticking the knife in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck the knife in",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "stuck the knife in",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      },
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      "name": "en-verb"
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          "ref": "2001, Ezra Greenspan, Jonathan Rose, Book History, volume 4, page 307:",
          "text": "Bengali speaks with courtly floweriness even when sticking the knife in, and Thompson's well-meaning British bluntness was not appreciated.",
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        }
      ],
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        "To say or do something deliberately and unnecessarily malicious."
      ],
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        [
          "deliberately",
          "deliberately"
        ],
        [
          "unnecessarily",
          "unnecessarily"
        ],
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          "malicious",
          "malicious"
        ]
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        "(idiomatic) To say or do something deliberately and unnecessarily malicious."
      ],
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