Dictionary entry

Have an axe to grind

Pronunciation

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Myanmar Meaning

[IDM ] (မလိုမုန်းထားမှု၊ ကိုယ်ကျိုးရလိုမှုစသည်အရ) အကြောင်းရှိသည်။

Definition

axe ( US also ax) /æks/ n ၁။ [C] ပုဆိန္။ A man burst in wielding an axe. ၂။ the axe [sing] လံုးဝ ျဖတ္ေတာက္ျခင္း။ ေလွ်ာ့ခ်ျခင္း။ Community arts projects are facing the axe (ie may not receive any more money). ❍ Clerical and office workers will not escape the axe. (also esp US ax) v ၁။ ဖယ္ရွားသည္။ အလုပ္မွ ထုတ္ပယ္ သည္။ He/ His job has been axed. ၂။ အသံုးစရိတ္၊ ဝန္ေဆာင္မႈ စသည္တို႔ကို သိသိသာသာ ျဖတ္ေတာက္သည္။ School grants are to be axed next year. ❏ have an axe to grind [ IDM ] (မလိုမုန္းထားမႈ၊ ကိုယ္က်ဳိး ရလိုမႈစသည္အရ) အေၾကာင္းရိွသည္။ She had no particular axe to grind and was only acting out of concern for their safety.

Examples

  1. Two schools face the axe.
  2. [give someone/something the axe] : The minister was given the axe in the ‘cash for influence’ scandal.