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night of the long knives
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Used in British politics of 13 July 1962, when Harold *Macmillan sacked a third of his cabinet (7 people) after a disastrous by-election. The original night of the phrase was rather more drastic. It was that of 30 June 1934, when Hitler had many of his colleagues murdered.
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