hatchet
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The government took a hatchet to its payrolls.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 22, 2025
Tottenham were still far too slick for Copenhagen and Van de Ven buried the hatchet in the 64th minute.
From Barron's • Nov. 4, 2025
But in a shock move, a beleaguered Brown, suffering low polling ratings, appeared to bury the hatchet and appointed his former friend as business secretary, making him a peer at the same time.
From BBC • Sep. 11, 2025
“What we see now is that they’re just taking a hatchet to the federal budget,” Mulqueen said.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025
After he’d been rescued and gone home, his mother had put the hatchet in a glass case in the living room, where she kept the china handed down by her grandmother.
From "The River" by Gary Paulsen
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