hatchet job
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The groundbreaking first film - Ricky Gervais's favourite - focused on Tap's disastrous US tour, and the band still brand DiBergi's treatment as "a hatchet job".
From BBC ● Sep. 11, 2025
“It was a hatchet job, a piece of crap,” Rose said of the investigation to the Washington Post.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 30, 2024
Misunderstood masterpiece or lousy meal, a richly deserved excoriation or hatchet job, what is clear is that Mr. Pellegrino had unexpectedly emerged as the ultimate caricature of the self-obsessed haute cuisine chef.
From New York Times ● Dec. 23, 2021
Roth then flirted with the notion of appointing writer and publisher James Atlas for the project but veered away when he read what he considered to be Atlas’s hatchet job on Saul Bellow.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 5, 2021
Also, unlike my Pathfinder hatchet job, I had the full schematics of the drill.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
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