hatchet job
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The groundbreaking first film - Ricky Gervais's favourite - focused on Tap's disastrous US tour, and the band still brand DiBergi's treatment as "a hatchet job".
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025
“It’s below me to even dignify this hatchet job with a response.”
From New York Times • Nov. 20, 2022
Roth then flirted with the notion of appointing writer and publisher James Atlas for the project but veered away when he read what he considered to be Atlas’s hatchet job on Saul Bellow.
From Washington Post • Apr. 5, 2021
“Instead, they spent years surreptitiously collaborating with the Farrows and their enablers to put together a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods.”
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 22, 2021
He subsequently published the story after deciding that Jefferson had failed to pay him adequately for his hatchet job on Adams.
From "Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation" by Joseph J. Ellis
