VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

An Axe

Meaning:

To Grind A grievance, a disagreement with someone that justifies confrontation.

Examples:

  • She's in jail because he's got an axe to grind.
  • The good news is he doesn't have an axe with him.
  • No, this is a union bloke with an axe to grind.
  • He's got an axe to grind with her, but you don't.
  • Sounds like an axe to the back to me.
  • Jason had been hit in the head with an axe.
  • And the cameraman already had an axe in his hand.
  • Any dismemberment is as an axe upon a living organism.
  • Not to a man with an axe in his hand.
  • Get me the head of the 1st division with an axe.