Talk:knife
Add topicLatest comment: 9 months ago by Equinox in topic knife it
You also use and if two noun phrases occur so frequently together that they are regarded as a single item. For example, knife and fork are always joined by and even in negative sentences such as ‘I haven’t got my knife and fork' https://www.wordreference.com/EnglishUsage/and
--Backinstadiums (talk) 10:01, 9 December 2019 (UTC)
John Camden Hotten's Slang Dictionary (1873) gives this as an obsolete slang synonym for cut it out, i.e. stop, desist. Equinox ◑ 17:56, 19 April 2024 (UTC)