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Under the knife.
If a person was under the knife, it means he/she was undergoing surgery.
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under the knife
adjective
Undergoing a surgical procedure.
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Finally, Christie went under the knife.
Nor have Europe's longer vacations come under the knife yet.
But one of his patients has died under the knife.
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The protesters shouted racist slogans like "Gypsies into soap" and "Turks under the knife".
For the increasing number of us going under the knife has been scarily unaffected by recession.
"I told them I didn't go under the knife," he said.
And she interviews Joan Rivers about her own adventures under the knife.
The club are reluctant to put the £32m forward under the knife.
He remembers one consequence of the cancer that saw him go back under the knife.
So Dr. Reese, like a growing number of American women, put her foot under the knife.
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