go for the jugular
Example Sentences
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At 21-0 up, they were camped on the Argentina line, looking to go for the jugular.
From BBC ● Nov. 16, 2025
And at a debate when the two were asked to say something nice about each other, Jerry chose to go for the jugular:
From Slate ● Mar. 4, 2024
There are few targets riper for satire than the customs and conventions of affluent suburbanites, and yet only a piddling handful of pop-culture parodies go for the jugular with the requisite precision or salutary bloodlust.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 15, 2021
With his opponent reduced to preserving the blockade on the d-pawn, White is free to go for the jugular on the kingside, something Janowsky does with Gallic panache.
From Washington Times ● Jul. 13, 2021
He has a cat-like instinct to go for the jugular.
From Salon ● Jul. 27, 2019
