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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
This is not a hatchet job, and it certainly could have been.
A wonderful counterblast in The Times today to yesterday's extraordinary hatchet job on Cressida Bonas in the Mail.
The hatchet job quickly went viral, with the twitterverse agreeing that it was terribly funny and horrendously mean.
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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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