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hatchet job
noun
- a maliciously destructive critique or act:
The special committee has done a hatchet job on the new proposal.
hatchet job
noun
- informal.a malicious or devastating verbal or written attack
Word History and Origins
Origin of hatchet job1
Idioms and Phrases
see hatchet man , def. 2.Example Sentences
Trump also claimed the film was "fake" and a "hatchet job" released right before the 5 November vote "to try and hurt" his campaign.
"I just thought, this must be some hatchet job. There is absolutely no way that Buffy Sainte-Marie could be a 'pretendian,'" he said, using the term used to describe people who feign indigenous ancestry.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is condemning the indictment of Trump, his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, as a political hatchet job.
“His role is to do a hatchet job,” Mr. McGovern said.
The Commanders later called the committee’s investigation “a politically inspired hatchet job.”
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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