hack up

They proceeded to hack up an entire tree that we planned to remove and left huge sections of trunk and limbs that blocked our home’s water main and public fire hydrant.

And, perhaps most disturbingly, I would hack up a dark, cigarette ash–colored phlegm each morning.

“It’s itchy, like a constant dry mouth, like wanting to hack up something and it’s all this white nasty stuff.”

Stream the Oscars online, and then let fanatics hack up the footage into YouTube clips – that’s how most people seem to prefer to consume it.

Auden may have attempted to hack up the poem and destroy it but it has been saved from dismemberment and death, time and again: “September 1, 1939”, among other things, is the world’s greatest zombie poem.