Pain went through me again, a hot knife into the bowels.

It had been like a hot knife going through her heart every time she came across an old, discarded lover.

Gerry's voice cut in like a hot knife through butter.

Every movement must have felt like a stab from a red hot knife.

I wanted to take a hot knife to his brain.

She couldn't bear not to look at him, yet meeting his eyes was like a hot knife searing into her heart.

Her use of the past tense sliced through him like a hot knife.

It was like a hot knife slicing through my entire body.

A is the curve of the hot knife through butter.

Use a sharp, hot knife to cut off pieces just before using.