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At the wedding, the two of them were making out one minute, shooting daggers at each other the next, making guests at their table uncomfortable.

"My brother and I have always slept in the same bed," Yilong declaims as he turns from the vanity mirror, shooting daggers at the femme fatale (Barbie Hsu) who has tried to come between them.

Lucy Watson: Known for her showdowns with many of the other cast members, there isn't anyone on the King's Road that Lucy hasn't shot daggers at.

But he strayed from his stool on the red-carpeted stage at one point and literally claimed Mr. Bush's territory as his own, shooting daggers at the Texas governor as Mr. Bush implied that the vice president was too partisan a politician to get anything done.

It was my competitors who shot daggers at me for "going rogue".

The explanation was treated as an inconvenience and they shot daggers at the server until he left.

Peter shot daggers at John with his eyes, making an "off with your head" gesture, scraping his thumb nail across his own neck.

It appears that may have been as far as it went, but it was enough to have Maci shooting daggers at him.

In fact, the other night at a dinner party seated amongst a crowd of the aforementioned art-world folk, I asked, "Are we done with Duchamp?" Knives and forks dropped from their fingers as their eyes shot daggers at me.

Shooting daggers at your ex whenever you look her way, rolling your eyes when someone else is speaking, shaking your head when you disagree, etc., will not help your cause and will be perceived as disrespectful.

My first instinct was to shoot daggers with my eyes at the boys, which I probably did (hey, I'm only human!), and I looked around to see if their parents were close by, but I didn't see anyone (figures, right?).

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