Meaning of hatchet job | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A journalistic or other treatment which portrays its subject in a very unfavorable manner; a work of criticism which aims to destroy a reputation.
2. An action or a program which imposes deep reductions in expenditure.

Examples

“That article about the mayor is nothing more than a hatchet job.”

“In smooth RP tones that belie his German parentage, he explains that none of his hachet jobs were written out of personal animosity.”

“Even the tabloid Bild, hardly known as a haven of art-house snobbery, published a hatchet job. “There are good literary adaptations and there are bad ones, and then there is All Quiet on the Western Front by director Edward Berger,” Bild’s critic wrote.”

“This so-called reform of our wage agreement was really just one big hatchet job!”

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