1 sacrificial knife and altar

1 lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs

2 to take matters into one's own hands

1 lit. to be the meat on sb's chopping block (idiom)

2 fig. to be at sb's mercy

1 lit. to go beyond the sacrificial altar and take over the kitchen (idiom); fig. to exceed one's place and meddle in other people's affairs

2 to take matters into one's own hands