hatchet job

"Hell of a hatchet job they did on you in the paper this morning."

In the end, the drama comes off as a hatchet job.

"Here's another arm of the same company calling it a hatchet job?"

Can the group tip Ted enough to make him do the hatchet job?

The first was that it would be a hatchet job on our former prime minister.

As a hatchet job, it falls some way short of the classics.

"I'm not going to do a hatchet job on him.

"To do a hatchet job would have felt like matricide," he said.

By the end, all the authors' hatchet jobs turn into total demolition.

Nobody wanted to do a hatchet job on you.

What this book is, then, is a rather dull hatchet job.

I looked at the byline of the hatchet job.

After a long silence, he angrily declared that it was "a hatchet job" on his book.

If your friends or family members recognize themselves, you can be in deep trouble, and not just when you do a hatchet job on them.

You see, I am still more than a little steamed over the hatchet job which was performed upon my paycheck.

The governor, through a spokesman, said he was guilty of no wrongdoing and called the bill "a political hatchet job."

She promised that she would not do a "hatchet job" on state agency officials.

Far from a hatchet job, the article is a meditation on money, hope, ambition, and appearances.

It was a bit of a hatchet job.

A hatchet job, if I ever saw one.

"The book is not a hatchet job or an explosive insider account.

Does the Guardian now deal in anonymous hatchet jobs?

Don't think I've forgotten the last hatchet job you did on me."

"It's like someone's doing a hatchet job on him."

I said, "You should cooperate with a writer now, or someone uninformed might do a hatchet job when you're gone."