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go for the jugular. Quickly go for the kill, show no mercy whatsoever. The expression originated with Massachusetts law- yer and U.S. senator Rufus Choate. Remarked Choate in de- scribing President John Quincy Adams: “He has . . . an instinct for the jugular and carotid artery, as unerring as that of any car- nivorous animal.” |