Meaning:
A strong attack on someone’s reputation; intentionally destructive criticism; calumny
Examples:
- I'm serious, I don't want to see a hatchet job.
- You turned it into a hatchet job and I had to live that down.
- This is a complete hatchet job.
- They said that there was so much smoke that they had to do a hatchet job on it anyway.
- These attacks culminated recently in a classic hatchet job programme made by an English television company and broadcast in three or four of the Member States.
- In an unexpected twist, ticket sales for the movie increased after the critic did a hatchet job on it.
- It's not a hatchet job, if that's what you're thinking.
- This looks like a hatchet job.
- I've got to sit in on a hatchet job.
- I can tell by the hatchet job you did on my partner.