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• Ax

  an instrument with a bladed head on a handle or helve, used for hewing, cleaving, chopping, etc. Jazz Slang. any musical instrument. the ax, Informal. dismissal from employment: to get the ax. expulsion from school. rejection by a lover, friend, etc.: His girlfriend gave him the ax. any usually summary removal or curtailment. to shape […]

• Ax job

  hatchet job.

• Ax to grind

  A selfish aim or motive, as in The article criticized the new software, but the author had an ax to grind, as its manufacturer had fired his son. This frequently used idiom comes from a story by Charles Miner, published in 1811, about a boy who was flattered into turning the grindstone for a man […]

• Ax, the

  ax, the Related Terms get the ax, give someone the ax

• Axa

  Achsah. Historical Examples Some hundreds of paces away the attack on the palace of Axa, where the Spaniards were entrenched, raged with fury. Montezuma’s Daughter H. Rider Haggard

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