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He has no political axe to grind, he is just concerned about the state of affairs here. I think he is gunning for the top job because he has an axe to grind with some of his colleagues. Some new reports may be biased because the reporters have an axe to grind. What started as a casual discussion flared up into a heated debate because both of ...
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HAVE AN AXE TO GRIND | meaning in the Cambridge English Dictionary Meaning of have an axe to grind in English have an axe to grind to have a strong personal opinion about something that you want people to accept and that is the reason why you do something: Environmentalists have no political axe to grind - they just want to save the planet.
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Neither story mentions the phrase an ax to grind. Like many inventions, this one looks likely to have been Franklin's Miner appears to have written a text called Who'll turn Grindstones?, which does explicitly mention an axe to grind, but which is similar enough to Franklin's earlier stories for some to suggest that Franklin was the real originator of the phrase.
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One of them, literally called The Axe, is actually a "Flying V" guitar that functions as an actual axe AND a hammer. It also takes "an axe to grind" even more literally, perhaps too much so, as it requires an average of 200 boss kills against Plantera, with only a .5% chance of dropping, and Plantera being a fairly difficult boss.
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Meaning – This idiom has 2 meanings: (1) to want to have an argument or discussion about something, (2) to have a personal agenda or hidden motive for doing something In Context – (1) I've got an axe to grind with you! That report you filed was full of errors. (2) I hope John won't talk about the Pope at dinner. He's always got an axe to grind about the church.
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If you have ever tried to learn a foreign language or have talked to someone who has had to learn English, you are reminded of how much figurative speech makes up a language. 'An Axe to Grind' can mean completely different things depending on the context. Here are 10 idioms you might recognize and their manly origins.
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To have an axe to grind is to have a dispute to take up with someone or, to have an ulterior motive; to have private ends to serve. What's the origin of the phrase 'Have an axe to grind'? Ax or axe? The spelling more commonly used in America is ax and, in Britain, axe, although in neither nation is there consistency.
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Also: Have no axe to grind with an/no axe to grind without an axe to grind. Meaning of Idiom 'Have an Axe to Grind' To have an axe to grind means to have a hidden personal and often selfish motive for one's behavior; to have a hidden opinion or a hidden agenda. 1 Kirkpatrick, Elizabeth M. The Wordsworth Dictionary of Idioms.Ware: Wordsworth, 1995.
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This manual is intended to be a companion to my video program, An Ax to Grind (99–01–MTDC). The video ( Figure 1) was produced by the Missoula Technology and Development Center (MTDC). Copies are available from the center. I hope you'll take a look at it. (99–01–MTDC), is a companion to this manual.
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photograph: An Ax to Grind: A Practical Ax Manual – Federal Highway Administration Of American-English origin, the expression to have an axe to grind (American-English spelling ax) means to have a private reason for doing, or being involved in, something.. It has often been attributed to Benjamin Franklin [].For example, the New English Dictionary …
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