The word "dagger" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a short, sharp knife with a blade that tapers to a point. For example, “He held the dagger tightly in his hand.”.
But then his attention fell upon the dagger of bone sticking out of my gum.
Shadow education minister "plunges in the dagger", said the Mail on Sunday.
It might be a dagger, or a full-on Zorro sword, or it might even be a bespoke 30ft knife that Benicio spends the film staggering beneath like a beleaguered caber-tosser.
It's Vin Diesel holding a dagger.
The demise of Mr Mobutu, preceded by the death earlier this year of Jacques Foccart, adviser on Africa to successive French presidents, seemed to mark the end of the era when cloak and dagger governed French diplomacy in Africa.
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To that end, he set up a series of cloak-and-dagger meetings with Gerry Adams, a pivotal figure in both the political and paramilitary wings of the republican movement.
Yet, even this shy, placid backwater was once infiltrated by SWAPO from Namibia, Boer paramilitaries from South Africa, and the ubiquitous CIA making yet another mess.The eccentric cloak-and-dagger plot involves a black American psychiatrist who would save Africa from religion and a local populist firebrand who would rather save it from cattle.
The poaching boom had arisen first from a craze for rhino-horn dagger-handles in Yemen, then from China's high-end market for ivory and rhino-horn carvings.
It also would not help (though this he never conceded) if its leader led a cloak-and-dagger life and ended up in the dock.One hit-man and a dogIn his early years as an MP, the most damaging public rumour about him was that his manifest passion for politics was for the game only, the machinations, duels and plots, and not for real social or constitutional change.
But few imagine Japanese diplomats to be quite so quick to mix it with the roughest in the cloak-and-dagger world of Lebanese politics.
