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meat ax

noun

cleaver ( def 2 ).
Informal. a drastic or ruthless procedure or approach, especially for reducing or trimming something, as expenditures:
The committee used a meat ax on the recreation budget.

meat-ax

[ meet-aks ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

, Informal.

Origin of meat ax¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Having failed to avoid that meat ax, the two sides are unlikely to forge a common-sense agreement now.

Nearby, a grinning butcher wields a meat ax, his apron spattered with blood.

It certainly did make folks stare when we walked into the Evergreen with Ka-kee-ta walking behind us with his meat ax.

It's nuf to make anybody go put his head under a meat-ax, so it is!

I hate to hear you hacking around like a dull meat-ax, Aggie.

I wish she would—if you're going to look like a meat-ax, Shad Wells.

Have the butcher cut the round steak one-half inch thick and then pound it with a meat ax to break the tough tissues.

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