| 释义 | go for the jugularidiom
 to make a serious effort to defeat someone, usually by criticizing or harming them in a cruel way: 攻击要害;给予致命一击
 Cunningham went straight for the jugular, telling him that his work was a complete disaster.坎宁安直指要害,抨击他的工作是个彻底的失败。
 SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
 Disapproving & criticizing
 anathematize
 animadversion
 aspersion
 aw
 backbite
 barrel
 bash
 belabour
 boo
 disapprobation
 knock
 knocker
 let someone have both barrelsidiom
 low blow
 mordacious
 mordancy
 pile
 slam
 there you goidiom
 union-basher
 
 
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