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2021-07-15 03:07
Take an axe to phrase
To cause great damage or try to cause great damage to something, typically refers to intangible things.
You have taken an axe to my hopes of a happy marriage.
You can't stop worrying from now on, as we have taken an axe to all evidence.
Harboured a grudge against them, she has taken an axe to everything they had built up together.
To put an end to something
1. Fall in a sequence
2. Be damaged, destroyed or defeated quickly and sequentially
A terrible disaster or a catastrophe
If something "goes under the wrecking ball", it is destroyed or demolished.
To destroy an argument, a rule, law, belief or plan; to make something ineffective
The verb "take" must be conjugated according to its tense.
The origin of this phrase is not clear.
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