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meat ax

肉斧,肉斧头,肉斧子,肉轴

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : cleaver.
    • : Informal. a drastic or ruthless procedure or approach, especially for reducing or trimming something, as expenditures: The committee used a meat ax on the recreation budget.

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Examples

  • The smell of grilled meat mixes with the exotic wafts of cinnamon tea served with a mush of sweet brown dessert.

  • Limbaugh makes comments like this because his right-wing fans require a non–stop diet of race-baiting red meat.

  • Chickens require significantly less land, water, and energy than all other meat options except farmed salmon.

  • In March, police arrested a group of wealthy businessmen and government officials who were about to dine on illegal tiger meat.

  • Those raised for their meat (200 million tons of it a year) can barely walk because their breasts have been so enlarged.

  • The sailors sometimes use it to fry their meat, for want of butter, and find it agreeable enough.

  • The camp grew still, except for the rough and ready cook pottering about the fire, boiling buffalo-meat and mixing biscuit-dough.

  • Victor was the younger son and brother—a tete montee, with a temper which invited violence and a will which no ax could break.

  • A few years back it was partly turned into a depot for American meat, but is now simply used for warehouses.

  • You know the fable about the dog who dropped his meat in the water, trying to snap at its reflection?