have an ax(e) to grind イディオム

an axe to grind

a point to discuss or argue about Jason had an axe to grind at the meeting - job security.

axe to grind

(See an axe to grind)

back to the grind

return to the job, go back to work After New Year's, it's back to the grind - the old routine.

bump and grind

walk or dance in a sexy way A seminude dancer was bumping and grinding under red lights.

bump and grind (hockey)

bump other players and work to get the puck To win hockey games we need players who bump and grind.

grind to a halt

slow down and stop (like a machine when it is turned off) The city ground to a halt when the power went off for five hours.

grinding halt

unplanned stop, forced stop When Andy lost his job, their marriage came to a grinding halt.

keep your nose to the grindstone

continue to work hard Keep your nose to the grindstone and you'll pass the final exam.

the daily grind

Idiom(s): the daily grind

Theme: WORK

[someone's] everyday work routine. (Informal.)
• I'm getting very tired of the daily grind.
• When my vacation was over, I had to go back to the daily grind.

put one's nose to the grindstone

Idiom(s): put one's nose to the grindstone

Theme: EFFORT

to keep busy doing one's work. (Also with have and get, as in the examples.)
• The boss told me to put my nose to the grindstone.
• I've had my nose to the grindstone ever since I started working here.
• If the other people in this office would get their noses to the grindstone, more work would get done.

have an ax(e) to grind

1. To accept a complaint or altercation that one feels accountable to discuss. I anticipate the bang-up has a bit of an axe to bullwork with you over the way the annual was handled.2. To accept a claimed action or egocentric acumen for adage or accomplishing something. It was boy's-club attitudes like castigation that fabricated my time at academy a active hell, so yeah, I accept a bit of an ax to grind. I don't accept an ax to bullwork here—I aloof appetite to apperceive the truth.Learn more: grind, have

have an ax(e) to grind

Fig. to accept article to accuse about. Tom, I charge to allocution to you. I accept an ax to grind. Bill and Bob went into the added allowance to argue. They had an axe to grind.Learn more: ax, grind, have

have an axe to grind

COMMON If addition has an axe to grind, they accept accurate attitudes about something, generally because they anticipate they accept been advised abominably or because they appetite to get an advantage. Note: `Axe' is spelled `ax' in American English. Lord Gifford believed cases should be referred by an absolute bureau which, as he put it, doesn't accept an axe to grind. He didn't accept a analytical ax to grind. He was actual advanced about added people's work. Note: You can additionally say that you have no axe to grind to abjure that your able opinions about article are based on claimed reasons. The unions assert they accept no axe to grind, because they will represent operators wherever they work. Note: There are several explanations for the agent of this expression. One is a adventure told by Benjamin Franklin about a man who managed to get his own axe acicular by allurement a boy to appearance him how his father's grindstone worked. Learn more: axe, grind, have

have an axe to grind

accept a private, sometimes malign, motive for accomplishing or actuality complex in something. The announcement originated in a adventure told by Benjamin Franklin and was acclimated aboriginal in the USA, abnormally with advertence to politics, but it is now in accepted use. 1997 Times I am a non-smoker, and accept no claimed axe to grind. Learn more: axe, grind, have

have an ˈaxe to grind

(usually acclimated in abrogating sentences) accept private, generally selfish, affidavit for actuality complex in something: Having no accurate political axe to grind, he stood for acclamation as an absolute candidate.Learn more: axe, grind, have

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have an ax(e) to grind イディオム

an axe to grind

axe to grind

back to the grind

bump and grind

bump and grind (hockey)

grind to a halt

grinding halt

keep your nose to the grindstone

the daily grind

put one's nose to the grindstone

have an ax(e) to grind

have an ax(e) to grind

have an axe to grind

have an axe to grind

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