unkindest cut of all, the
unkindest cut of all, the the most hurtful thing that could be done or said; originally as a quotation from Shakespeare's Julius Caesar (1598), ‘Through this the well-beloved Brutus stabb'd…This was the most unkindest cut of all.’
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