home thrust
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
home thrust (plural home thrusts)
- A well-directed or effective thrust; one that wounds in a vital part.
- (figurative) A personal attack.
- 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island:
- “I make it a point of honour not to lose a man for King George (God bless him!) and the gallows.”
The rogues looked at each other but swallowed the home-thrust in silence.
References[edit]
- “home thrust”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.