The wind cut like a meat ax at Gomez's face.

Frank Spinoza could have cut the tension with a meat ax.

But they must be done with a scalpel, not a meat ax.

"I had to come in almost with a meat ax," he said.

The cuts in Albany this year have been made with a meat ax.

The network has taken a meat ax to its comedy lineup, knocking the four comedies off the air.

"It's not something we've done with a meat ax, nor are we suddenly turning our backs on the most needy people in our society."

He said the Byrd plan would be like cutting programs with "a simple meat ax."

It has to be done surgically, not with a meat ax.

"So I'm not going in there with a meat ax."