Sentence examples for A double-edged dagger from inspiring English sources

Referring to Afghanistan and Iraq, he said Mr. Obama was "like one who swallows a double-edged dagger — whichever way he moves it, it will wound him".

Flatware began as fashion, in the sixteen-hundreds, after centuries in which you came to your host's table with your own knife — by Wilson's account, a double-edged dagger — hanging from your belt.

Only one of these objects -- a 16th-century Mogul double-edged dagger, gold-set with rubies, emeralds and turquoise -- has been recovered.

It's a double-edged comment.

That could be a double-edged sword.

Oil can be a double-edged sword.

"Yes, it's a double-edged sword.

"It's a double-edged sword.

The imagination is a double-edged sword.

But it was a double-edged victory.

Global connectivity is a double-edged sword.