meat-axemeat-axn.

Brit.

/ˈmiːtaks/, U.S.

/ˈmidˌæks/

Forms: see meat n. and axe n.¹

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: meat n., axe n.¹

Etymology: < meat n. + axe n.¹The literal meaning at sense 2 is likely to be the original use in English.

1. A crude, violent, or drastic approach to or way of dealing with a matter. Frequently attributive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > course adopted to achieve an end > other spec.

root and branch reform1822

meat-axe1831

root and branch policy1837

third way1935

scare tactic1967

1831 Daily Louisville Public Advertiser 17 Oct. 2/3 ‘Mister’, says he, ‘I can whip my weight in wildcats, and ride straight through a crab-apple orchard on a flash of lightning. Clear meat-ax disposition; the best man, if I a'nt, I wish I may be tetotaciously exfluncted!’

1895 N.Y. Dramatic News 7 Dec. 3/2 For a lumbering, English melodrama it fills the bill, in spite of the editing Mr. Brady did with a meat-axe.

1940 Amer. Econ. Rev. 30 619 Meat-axe ‘reform’ based upon a priori premises that take no account of the ‘felt difficulty’ to which the present system has been the response.

1959 Life 20 July 30/2 The President's budget (the largest in our peacetime history) calls for fiscal integrity, not meat-axes, and has plenty of room for all our real needs, of which foreign aid is one.

1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 May 4/2 Despite Yeltsin's tendency to use a meat-axe approach in his Moscow job, Gorbachev, by all reports, approved.

2. literal. An implement with a heavy blade used for cutting meat; a butcher's cleaver. as savage (or wicked) as a meat-axe (U.S. regional): vicious, dangerous; (of a person) very angry. Cf. as mad as a meat axe at mad adj. Phrases 2i.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > cleaver

chopping-knife1552

cleaver1580

chopper1818

meat-axe1834

mezzaluna1954

1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major 185 Its helve is of hickory—in Kentucky parlance, ‘is as savage as a meat-axe’.

1835 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 1st Ser. 237 She was..as wicked as a meat-axe.

1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. xxxix. 106 You couldn't kill her with a meat-axe.

1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. xiii. 198 I looked as savage as a meat-axe.

1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 266 Meat Axe, a cleaver.

1861 N.Y. Herald 16 Feb. 3/5 During this controversy the Governor looked as savage as a meat axe.

1862 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola in Cornhill Mag. Nov. 584 I..took hold of my meat-axe.

1941 J. Masefield Gautama the Enlightened 21 The sides of beef still dangle from the hooks; The meat-axe chops for critic-witted cooks.

1999 Toronto Sun (Electronic ed.) 19 Aug. 44 The boy had become frustrated with his father's drunken abuse and murdered him with a meat axe.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	meat-axe
释义	meat-axemeat-axn. Brit. /ˈmiːtaks/, U.S. /ˈmidˌæks/ Forms: see meat n. and axe n.¹ Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: meat n., axe n.¹ Etymology: < meat n. + axe n.¹The literal meaning at sense 2 is likely to be the original use in English. 1. A crude, violent, or drastic approach to or way of dealing with a matter. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > advantage > usefulness > use (made of things) > instrumentality > [noun] > course adopted to achieve an end > other spec. root and branch reform1822 meat-axe1831 root and branch policy1837 third way1935 scare tactic1967 1831 Daily Louisville Public Advertiser 17 Oct. 2/3 ‘Mister’, says he, ‘I can whip my weight in wildcats, and ride straight through a crab-apple orchard on a flash of lightning. Clear meat-ax disposition; the best man, if I a'nt, I wish I may be tetotaciously exfluncted!’ 1895 N.Y. Dramatic News 7 Dec. 3/2 For a lumbering, English melodrama it fills the bill, in spite of the editing Mr. Brady did with a meat-axe. 1940 Amer. Econ. Rev. 30 619 Meat-axe ‘reform’ based upon a priori premises that take no account of the ‘felt difficulty’ to which the present system has been the response. 1959 Life 20 July 30/2 The President's budget (the largest in our peacetime history) calls for fiscal integrity, not meat-axes, and has plenty of room for all our real needs, of which foreign aid is one. 1990 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 17 May 4/2 Despite Yeltsin's tendency to use a meat-axe approach in his Moscow job, Gorbachev, by all reports, approved. 2. literal. An implement with a heavy blade used for cutting meat; a butcher's cleaver. as savage (or wicked) as a meat-axe (U.S. regional): vicious, dangerous; (of a person) very angry. Cf. as mad as a meat axe at mad adj. Phrases 2i. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > cleaver chopping-knife1552 cleaver1580 chopper1818 meat-axe1834 mezzaluna1954 1834 C. A. Davis Lett. J. Downing, Major 185 Its helve is of hickory—in Kentucky parlance, ‘is as savage as a meat-axe’. 1835 T. C. Haliburton Clockmaker (1862) 1st Ser. 237 She was..as wicked as a meat-axe. 1842 C. M. Kirkland Forest Life II. xxxix. 106 You couldn't kill her with a meat-axe. 1844 ‘J. Slick’ High Life N.Y. I. xiii. 198 I looked as savage as a meat-axe. 1859 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 2) 266 Meat Axe, a cleaver. 1861 N.Y. Herald 16 Feb. 3/5 During this controversy the Governor looked as savage as a meat axe. 1862 ‘G. Eliot’ Romola in Cornhill Mag. Nov. 584 I..took hold of my meat-axe. 1941 J. Masefield Gautama the Enlightened 21 The sides of beef still dangle from the hooks; The meat-axe chops for critic-witted cooks. 1999 Toronto Sun (Electronic ed.) 19 Aug. 44 The boy had become frustrated with his father's drunken abuse and murdered him with a meat axe. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1831
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