take a swipe at

What I see is a slumping candidate so desperate that he invented Brown’s chopper conversation to take a swipe at Harris.

The Russian leader did take a swipe at Ukraine, saying that the suspects were apprehended while traveling to the Russian border, where he alleged a crossing was being prepared for them from “the Ukrainian side.”

“Throughout the conversations about aid to Ukraine, I have not heard a single person take a swipe at Taiwan,” McCaul said at a recent National Day celebration hosted by Taiwan’s representative office in Washington.

He also used his statement to take a swipe at Sunak, saying the country needed a "properly Conservative government" that would reduce business and personal taxes.

The silver lining of all of this inaction for McCarthy, at least, has been an opportunity to take a swipe at Scalise, whom he has long distrusted.