axe
斧头,斧子,大斧,腋下
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Definitions
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plural axes
- : a hand tool with one side of its head forged and sharpened to a cutting edge, used for felling trees, splitting timber, etcSee also hatchet
- : an axe to grind an ulterior motivea grievancea pet subject
- : the axe informal dismissal, esp from employment; the sackBritishsevere cutting down of expenditure, esp the removal of unprofitable sections of a public service
- : US slang any musical instrument, esp a guitar or horn
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- : to chop or trim with an axe
- : informal to dismiss, restrict, or terminate
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Examples
The Rocket used his stick as though it were a battle axe and hacked at Laycoe, hitting the defenseman in the ear and on the shoulder.
Additionally, if you’re going to stay one step ahead of the guy with the axe, you need to know where your company and the industry is headed and obtain the skills necessary to market yourself in a constantly changing environment.
It’s not about protecting Google, it’s about accounting for when the axe swings in the opposite direction.
And that means they also fall under the umbrella of programs most likely to get the axe when state and federal budgets are tight.
It was promoted on what might be called not-quite-mainstream or, indeed, axe-to-grind media.
And now also the axe is laid unto the root of the trees: therefore every tree which bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down.
He is the drone official, the bland-faced human-resources manager tasked with dropping the axe.
And it is only one of a number of Afghan schools to face the budget axe swung by distant governments and cost-cutting politicians.
But not too big for the ragged old arm that felled it down as an axe fells the last rings of a stricken tree.
For the laws of the people are vain: for the works of the hand of the workman hath cut a tree out of the forest with an axe.
She shook her head—Gilbert was not at home, and her was so blunt that a body might ride to Rumford on it.