英语词汇“to have an axe to grind”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

P2. to have axes to grind (originally U.S. Politics): to have private ends to serve [in reference to a story told by Franklin] ; now more commonly to have an axe to grind.

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society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > seek or look after one's own interest [verb (intransitive)] > have private ends to serve

to have axes to grind1815

1815 C. Miner Who'll turn Grindstones? When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers..thinks I, that man has an axe to grind.

1865 J. G. Holland Plain Talks v. 188 Little cliques and cabals composed of men who have axes to grind.

1881 Daily Tel. 8 June 6/2 The hands..that ‘grind the axe,’ and that ‘pull the strings.’

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 595 Skin-the-Goats..evidently with an axe to grind, was airing his grievances.

1939 G. B. Shaw Geneva ii. p. 30 Distinguished statesmen of different nations..each with a national axe to grind.

单词	to have an axe to grind
释义	> as lemmas to have an axe to grind P2. to have axes to grind (originally U.S. Politics): to have private ends to serve [in reference to a story told by Franklin] ; now more commonly to have an axe to grind. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > self-interest > seek or look after one's own interest [verb (intransitive)] > have private ends to serve to have axes to grind1815 1815 C. Miner Who'll turn Grindstones? When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers..thinks I, that man has an axe to grind. 1865 J. G. Holland Plain Talks v. 188 Little cliques and cabals composed of men who have axes to grind. 1881 Daily Tel. 8 June 6/2 The hands..that ‘grind the axe,’ and that ‘pull the strings.’ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses iii. xvi. [Eumaeus] 595 Skin-the-Goats..evidently with an axe to grind, was airing his grievances. 1939 G. B. Shaw Geneva ii. p. 30 Distinguished statesmen of different nations..each with a national axe to grind. extracted from axeaxn.¹ < as lemmas
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