英:[ˈhætʃɪt mæn]
美:[ˈhætʃɪt mæn]
英:[ˈhætʃɪt mæn]
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受雇的杀人凶手;职业杀手;打手;走狗
noun
(informal) a person hired by another to commit murder.He was valued by the mob as a hatchet man.
a person assigned to carry out a disagreeable or unscrupulous task for a superior.I was fired by the boss's hatchet man.Their hatchet man falsified the record.
a writer or critic who maliciously attacks people to destroy their reputations.
The first known use of hatchet man was in 1876
1 She doesn't criticize her opponent's character directly. She has her hatchet men in the media do it for her.
2 He was fired by his boss's hatchet man.
3 In the twenty-tens, the brothers took up solo careers; Malice converted to Christianity (becoming No Malice), as Pusha T became a hatchet man for Kanye West.
4 The Mondale inner circle wanted Ferraro to play the traditional running-mate role of hatchet man.
5 In a role reversal from their eight years together in the White House, Barack Obama has become Joe Biden’s wingman and, in his understated way, his hatchet man.
6 To secure the 1800 presidential election, Thomas Jefferson infamously hired a hatchet man named James Callender to spread false rumors about John Adams wanting a war with France.
7 Avigdor Liberman was a penniless former bar bouncer from Moldova, happy to be the hatchet man.
8 Even so, in his four years as the nation’s top tax official, Mr. Moyane earned a national reputation as Mr. Zuma’s hatchet man, still guided by his loyalties to A.N.C. leaders who believe in the supremacy of the party over the country.
9 The Mafia hired a hit man to go after the key-witness in the trial.
黑手党雇佣了一名职业杀手去追杀一名法庭上的重要证人。
10 He always had a hatchet man do the dirty work for him.
他总是找一名打手为他干这样的卑鄙勾当。
11 They reckoned he was a hatchet man, out to shred the workforce and crush the union.
他们估计他是上司派来的刽子手,专门对工人大开杀戒,大肆镇压工会。
12 John Smith is the hatchet man for the Mayor's Party; he smears all the other candidates regularly.
约翰史密斯是市长一派雇用来破坏他人名誉的作家, 他按时攻击所有其他的侯选人.
13 Network hatchet man also brings a secondary action.
网络打手也带来一个副作用.
14 That hatchet man released rumors of a sex scandal to the press.
那个撰文者把桃色丑闻泄露给新闻界.
15 The firm hired Mr Green to be hatchet man; his title is that of Executive Vice President.
公司雇用格林先生专门负责整顿工作, 他的头衔是行政副总裁.
16 He a a hatchet man for the leader but I don't think that he is real.
他是充作领导人的打手,但我不认为他是玩真的.
17 He with his hatchet men swaggered out of the bar.
他和他那帮打手神气活现地走出了那间酒吧.
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