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
Which doesn’t mean “Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life,” is a hatchet job.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 11, 2025
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
Allen, now 85, and Previn, 50, issued a joint statement last week accusing the documentarians of “surreptitiously collaborating with the Farrows and their enablers to put together a hatchet job riddled with falsehoods.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 1, 2021
Also, unlike my Pathfinder hatchet job, I had the full schematics of the drill.
From "The Martian" by Andy Weir
