meat ax
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.
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drastic or severe: meat-ax defense cuts.
favoring or advocating drastic reductions: a meat-ax approach to the budget.
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How to use meat ax in a sentence
Having failed to avoid that meat ax, the two sides are unlikely to forge a common-sense agreement now.
Washington Is Waiting for Godot as President Obama’s Second-Term Agenda Stalls | Howard Kurtz | April 9, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTNearby, 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.
The Amazing Inheritance | Frances R. SterrettIt's nuf to make anybody go put his head under a meat-ax, so it is!
Capitola's Peril | Mrs. E.D.E.N. SouthworthI hate to hear you hacking around like a dull meat-ax, Aggie.
The Corner House Girls on Palm Island | Grace Brooks Hill
I wish she would—if you're going to look like a meat-ax, Shad Wells.
The Vagrant Duke | George GibbsHave the butcher cut the round steak one-half inch thick and then pound it with a meat ax to break the tough tissues.
Mrs. Wilson's Cook Book | Mary A. Wilson
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