Sentence examples for cut the head off from inspiring English sources

King Abdullah, a cable says, urged America to "cut the head off the snake".

Apparently he cut the head off a fish and threw the body down her top.

"We cut the head off, but the tail is still left," warned one of the senior American military officials, discussing the aftermath of the Sinjar raid.

It had a wonderful name, Spanish, sort of like monkfish with burnt garlic, and I started out with the monkfish — which is all tail, because the monkfish were so ugly that they cut the head off at sea because they didn't want anything that ugly on the boat.

We didn't know what line we had to cross to provoke Saddam Hussein into using weapons of mass destruction — maybe the border, the Euphrates, the Tigris or the doorway to his presidential palace — and so the overriding objective was speed: get to Baghdad and cut the head off the snake.

Bush and Blair's assumption that they could cleanly cut the head off the snake and effortlessly transform Iraq into a peaceful liberal democracy was insane... Sir John Chilcot's report did not accuse our former prime minister of lying about Saddam's non-existent weapons of mass destruction.

Only after a few years was he permitted, under close supervision, to cut the heads off some fish.

"I think the focus should now be to cut the head of the snake off," he said.

Hours before the strikes, US senator Lindsey Graham called for Nato to "cut the head of the snake off".

Cut the "head" of the charger off, or the plug.

So my recommendation to NATO and the administration is to cut the head of the snake off.