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Discover LudwigThe phrase "about to savage" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to indicate that someone is on the verge of attacking or criticizing someone or something harshly.
Example: "The critics were about to savage the film for its lack of originality."
Alternatives: "on the brink of attacking" or "ready to criticize".
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It was incredibly entertaining to watch Young gather himself, knowing he was about to savage NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, no doubt weighing the consequences in his head before he did so.
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We are about to learn a savage lesson in how the rainforest gets its name.
Democrats complained about savage cuts to food stamps, which actually amounted to a mere 1% over ten years compared with an earlier version.
Read the review Although that title made it hard for the media to talk about, Stephen Adly Guirgis's savage comedy of multicultural distrust and the different definitions of decency in 21st-century America was worth shouting about.
Books like George Orwell's 1984 or William Golding's Lord of the Flies would be better suited to us - reading about savage boys or terrifying future societies would be so fascinating.
With rabid savages about to pummel on the gates, why bother to work or even think?
Political sketchwriters these days are routinely rude about our elected representatives; in the early 1960s, it was iconoclastic to be savage about anyone in public life.
As Freyne says: "I wonder what it is about savage cannibalism that so reflects human nature?" It's a question also posed by Good Manners, an eye-poppingly bizarre exploration of race, class and flesh-starved werewolves in downtown Sao Paolo.
What is fair about throwing them to the savage lions of a dysfunctional housing market where costs have spiralled for decades?
The answer came quickly, Mr. Lechner said, thanks to Mr. Savage's heartfelt prose about wanting to have a child.
And we need to be savage but creative about the contents.
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