go for the jugular

“It was like the conservatives decided to go for the jugular.”

“We got a chance to go for the jugular tomorrow and that’s our intent,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said.

As Tamara King, who lives in St. Charles County Missouri, told PBS NewsHour, "You start by taking away small things, right? And then you do that, you gain your support and then you go for the jugular, right? So that's what they did. They took away everything. Now, where are these kids supposed to go and learn and have those activities that involve books?"

Cheesy, strident, ridiculous and sometimes disarmingly, stupidly funny, “Renfield” doesn’t go for the jugular as much as give it a playful and quickly forgotten love bite.

One pivotal scene allows Rebecca to confront the crumbs of imposter syndrome pressed into her by Rupert, proving that she, too, can go for the jugular without violating the core of who she is.