political parties that are 'at daggers drawn' (with each other)
They 'looked daggers at' each other across the table.
a 'cloak-and-dagger' novel
(..) of an enseamed bed Stewed in corruption, honeying and making love over the nasty sly Oh speak to me no more, these words like daggers enter in mine ears - No more, sweet Hamlet - A murderer and a villain A slave that is not the twentieth part the worth of your preceding lord A king of vices, (..)2015 Hamlet
(..) Oh heart, lose not thy nature. Let not ever the soul of Nero enter this firm bosom Let me be cruel, not unnatural. I will speak daggers to her but use none I like him not, nor stands it safe with us to let his madness range. Therefore prepare you I your commission will forthwith dispatch (..)2015 Hamlet