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Stanley knife
noun
A type of retractable utility knife with a replaceable blade.
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I check where my Stanley knife is.
Herrera was doing copper work with a Stanley knife, and immediately slashed her wrists.
As I race past the sofa I lift the Stanley knife and pocket it.
They threatened me with a Stanley knife, and took my watch and my friend's gold chain.
Later, he interviews a suspected paedophile with the aid of a bottle of bourbon, a lighter and a Stanley knife.
Ideally your butcher will do this for you, or use a scalpel or Stanley knife rather than a kitchen knife.
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Certain images have remained imprinted in my mind since (if you're ever in the mood for some prolonged scenes of facial mutilation-by-Stanley-knife, Eden Lake's your film) and when the credits eventually rolled, I felt like I'd been through 12 rounds with Mike Tyson rather than 90 minutes with Michael Fassbender.
Next morning when everybody's away to work and the place is quiet I Stanley-knife my way out and open the door.
Kate Beckinsale, an actress too few film-makers have thought to challenge over the years, turns out to be an optimum fit for Austen – all surface serenity masking Stanley-knife severity.
His startling 1993 debut novel, Robinson, takes its wrong turn into a backroom in Soho with no postcode, a delirious sump of sour pornography and sudden Stanley-knife redundancy announcements.
I started cutting myself with a Stanley knife a sad attempt to shock empathy from him.
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