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danh từ|ngoại động từ|Tất cả
Cách viết khác : axe [æks]
danh từ, số nhiều axes
cái rìu
to fit (put ) the axe in (on ) the helve
giải quyết được một vấn đề khó khăn
to get the axe
(thông tục) bị thải hồi
bị đuổi học (học sinh...)
bị (bạn...) bỏ rơi
to hang up one's axe
rút lui khỏi công việc; từ bỏ những việc làm không mang lại kết quả gì
to have an axe to grind
(xem) grind
to lay the axe to the root of
(xem) root
to send the axe after the helve
liều cho đến cùng; đâm lao theo lao
ngoại động từ
chặt bằng rìu, đẽo bằng rìu
(nghĩa bóng) cắt bớt (khoản chi...)
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ax

ax or axe (ăks) noun

plural axes (ăkʹsĭz)

1. A tool with a bladed, usually heavy head mounted crosswise on a handle, used for felling trees or chopping wood.

2. Any of various bladed, hand-held implements used as a cutting tool or weapon.

3. Informal. A sudden termination of employment: My colleague got the ax yesterday.

4. Slang. A musical instrument, especially a guitar.

verb, transitive

axed, axing, axes

1. To use a heavy, bladed cutting implement in order to chop or fell (something).

2. Informal. To remove ruthlessly or suddenly: a social program that was axed to effectuate budget cuts.

idiom.

ax to grind

A selfish or subjective aim: He claimed to be disinterested, but I knew he had an ax to grind.

 

[Middle English, from Old English æx.]

Word History: To understand the origin of the idiom ax to grind, we need to know that grind means "to sharpen." This phrase is said to have come from a story by the 19th-century journalist Charles Miner (alias Poor Robert) about a seemingly friendly man who was able by flattery to persuade a young boy to turn a grindstone for him. The tale first appeared in the Luzerne, Pennsylvania, Federalist on September 7, 1810, under the title "Who'll Turn Grindstones?" and later in an 1815 book entitled Essays from the Desk of Poor Robert the Scribe. Because "Poor Robert" was confused with "Poor Richard," the story has often been erroneously attributed to Benjamin Franklin. The idiom itself is an Americanisma word or expression originating in the United States. It was at first restricted to political contexts, but quotations from James Joyce ("Skin-the-Goat . . . evidently with an axe to grind, was airing his grievances") and George Bernard Shaw ("distinguished statesmen of different nations . . . each with a national axe to grind") attest that the phrase has traveled abroad and, as we know only too well, is no longer found only in political contexts.

Đồng nghĩa - Phản nghĩa
ax
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ax
ax (n)
battleax, hatchet, tomahawk, halberd
ax (v)
  • reduce, cut, cut back, scale down, slim down, downsize, decimate
    antonym: increase
  • dismiss, fire (informal), discharge (formal), sack (informal), put an end to, give the sack (informal), let go, can (US, slang), lay off
    antonym: employ
  • sever, cleave, chop (informal), cut, hack