noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
do a hatchet job
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They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job on them.
hatchet job
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They were afraid I was going to do a hatchet job on them.
hatchet man
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
job
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Frankly, as a sports journalist, I find the hatchet jobs being done on Graham Taylor embarrassing.
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He devotes several paragraphs to a hatchet job .
man
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Were they heroes, or leftwing hatchet men ?
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Far worse than an ineffectual president would be an ideologically motivated hatchet man .
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Crucial to Mbeki's back-room operation are his deputy minister, Essop Pahad, considered the parliamentary hatchet man .
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And he went head on against the notion that he would be an unfeeling hatchet man against the government.
■ VERB
bury
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Christmas looks to be a time for burying the hatchet or exhuming it for re-examination.
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So much for burying the hatchet , he thinks.
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After the race, the two men met and sensibly buried the hatchet .
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Holly McPeak and Nancy Reno hope to bury the hatchet long enough to bring home the gold.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
bury the hatchet/bury your differences
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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At each intersection, Converse had cringed in anticipation of the bullet, the blade, the hatchet .
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Frankly, as a sports journalist, I find the hatchet jobs being done on Graham Taylor embarrassing.
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He devotes several paragraphs to a hatchet job.
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His smooth face was slashed open by his predatory mouth, as if an invisible hatchet were biting into fruit.
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Holly McPeak and Nancy Reno hope to bury the hatchet long enough to bring home the gold.
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It has often been noted that while barbarians fight with hatchets, civilised men fight with gossip.
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Were they heroes, or leftwing hatchet men?
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Whack, the sound of the hatchet decapitating the poor thing.