The phrase
"little stab" refers to a small and brief, but still hurtful, comment or action that can cause emotional pain.
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This movement arose in the early 1960s: Jacobs's
Little Stabs at Happiness, Rice's Chumlum and Smith's Flaming Creatures were all made between 1959 - 1963, with Smith's film confiscated by police and censored by the Supreme Court.
I'm happy for the Pole even if he appears to be having
a little stab at our club, and he would still be our third choice if he were here...
Sashiko, pronounced «sash (i) ko» with the «i» almost silent, means «
little stabs».
Sashiko is usually a running stitch; the word sashiko translates to «
little stabs.»
The researchers concluded that the anterior insula was integrating information about the experiment with the sensations from the foot, priming the pain network to feel
a little stab.
Ahhhh, wouldn't be a Wiiudaily article without taking
that little stab to deflate a good vibe.
But if we were to take
a little stab at it, we're guessing that it could be somewhere along the lines of a 2.3 - liter unit that pumps out 244 horsepower.
Every little stab of the brush, like a kind of quiet violence, has its place.