hatchet job

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The press did a very effective hatchet job on her last movie.
报界对她上一部电影进行了恶意攻击，造成了很大影响。
When the company was taken over the new managing director did a hatchet job and fired half the staff.
新的公司被接手的时候，新的管理总监恶语相向并且解雇了一半员工。
“If we do not do our job properly, bury the hatchet and move forward, there’s a danger that the people of this area will march to Lahore and will not spare the elite class, ” he said.
“如果我们工作不到位，不与他们达成和解继续前进，这个地区的人们很可能跑到拉合尔去，并不会饶恕特权阶级”。他说道。

Would you have accused Korean War vets of engaging in a political hatchet job because they disagreed with a ruling that resulted in the government illegally (at least in my opinion) screwing them out of the benefits they were promised?
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To do a hatchet job on someone or something means to say or write something mentioning many bad things about them, which harms their reputation.