Show how it started by JEAN NEWTON CUTTHROAT CUT THROAT TO 0 D BE E a cutthroat cut throat one need not necessarily Tess essa rily artly cut throats nowadays the term 14 1 used to describe treachery of any kind whether or not this la Is accompanied compa compan nied lea by physical violence it is the sense of treachery rather than the particular medium by which it la Is carried out that we mean to express when we refer to some one os as a cut throat however it Is in its literal sense that the term had its origin coined by that great master of words will shakespeare the word Is over three hundred years old its earliest recorded use Is found in mac blac built said to have been written in 1000 in the following context the murderer enters who has haa been commissioned by macbeth Ala cbeth to put banquo banquot out of the way Lla cbeth asks Is lie he dispatched to which the murderer replies replica my aly lord his throat Is cut cuta that I 1 did for him then Ala cbeth says thou art the best 0 the cut throats I 1 copyright |