you could cut it with a knife

“The anger – some days you could cut it with a knife.

"You could cut it with a knife," White said.

Slowly pouring water upon the hot stones, he caused steam to rise so thick you could cut it with a knife.

Aunt Maria was in the kitchen cleaning up, removing herself from the scene of anger so thick you could cut it with a knife.

It creates such a distinctive, thick and fermented smell that you could cut it with a knife.

Before the warning was canceled, "it was so tense, you could cut it with a knife," he said.

One longtime Porter Ranch resident who fled his home described smoke that was "so thick, you could cut it with a knife."

I have heard of many going astray even in the village streets, when the darkness was so thick that you could cut it with a knife, as the saying is.

No reaction from the ISLANDERS; their silence is so thick and tense you could cut it with a knife.

"The tension was so tight 20 years ago you could cut it with a knife," says Bryant, whose Operation HOPE was among many community groups to rise in response to the riot.