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hatchet job

noun

Definitions

  1. A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner

    A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner; a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation.

    • That article about the mayor is nothing more than a hatchet job.
    • In smooth RP tones that belie his German parentage, he explains that none of his hachet jobs were written out of personal animosity.

  2. An action or a program which imposes deep reductions in expenditure.

    • This so-called reform of our wage agreement was really just one big hatchet job!

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