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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

First recorded in 1940–45

see hatchet man , def. 2.

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.

April 23, 2024inveterate

[in-vet-er-it ]

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