Ax job

hatchet job.

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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