ax to grind

The play hasn’t any ax to grind.

So, I have a little bit of an ax to grind about it.

As he explained to reporters, “I think the nomination is going to go forward,” adding that while he had not reviewed the affidavit, he had “grave doubts as to the substance” and believed that its author “has an ax to grind.”

Kinch told the paper he was not racist and that he was being targeted by colleagues with “an ax to grind.”

"Cohen had an ax to grind because he did not appreciate what President Trump did or did not do for him after he became president of the U.S.,"