hatchet man

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John Smith is the hatchet man for the Mayor's Party; he smears all the other candidates regularly.
約翰·史密斯是市長一派雇用來破壞他人名譽的作家，他按時攻擊所有其他的侯選人。
"Up in the Air," starring George Clooney as a corporate hatchet man forced to consider his life's direction, took home nominations for bestfilm drama and for Clooney as best actor.
《懸而未決》獲本屆金球獎最佳影片提名，其主縯喬治•尅魯尼憑借該片獲得最佳男縯員提名。尅魯尼在片中飾縯一個公司裁員專家，後(因自己遭遇職業危機)不得不重新思考人生方曏。
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All of us are the employees whom the texts record seafood, the boss cans not find a body, hatchet man institution machine, we could not take the labor cost of default.
我們都是文記海鮮的員工，老板找不到人，打手機關機，我們拿不到拖欠的工資。

Today, the courts of a European nation proudly assume the role of hatchet man for conquering Islam.
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While the hatchet man and deal-maker, Mr Kanemaru, managed the opposition with wads of money passed beneath the table, the wily Mr Takeshita ran the government using his extensive network within the ruling party and the upper echelons of the bureaucracy.
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Their chair was ready for its first victim: William Kemmler, a Buffalo man who had murdered his wife with a hatchet.
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You can refer to someone who makes changes in an organization by getting rid of lots of people as a hatchet man, especially if you think they do so in an unnecessarily harsh way.