axe (redirected from axes)

get axed

Fig. to get fired. Betty and two of her friends got axed today.

See also: get

have an ax(e) to grind

Fig. to have something to complain about. Tom, I need to talk to you. I have an ax to grind. Bill and Bob went into the other room to argue. They had an axe to grind.

See also: grind, have

old battle-axe

a bossy old woman. She is such an old battle-axe. I'll bet she's hell to live with.

See also: old

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get the axe  also be given the axe

1. if a person gets the axe, they lose their job Senior staff are more likely to get the axe because the company can't afford their high salaries.

2. if a plan or a service gets the axe, it is stopped My research project was the first thing to be given the ax when the new boss took over.

See also: get

have an axe to grind

to have a strong opinion about something, which you are often trying to persuade other people is correct As a novelist, he has no political axe to grind.

See also: grind, have

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have an ax to grind also have an axe to grind

1. to have a selfish reason for saying or doing something The best reporting is done by people who don't have an ax to grind. After you get the same complaints from a number of people, you begin to think it may not be just people who have personal axes to grind.

2. to have a strong opinion about something that influences your actions I don't have an ax to grind about the fact that Christmas has become commercialized.

See also: grind, have