The Fexco 2024 concludes by breaking records in visits and economic
activity.
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The International Fair and Exhibition of Cochabamba (Fexco) concluded
yesterday after 11 days of constant and intense activity. Preliminary
figures indi...
hatchet man
A person who performs nasty tasks for his or her superior, such as firing subordinates, attacking the character of a political opponent, spreading rumors about a competitor, or the like. The term, so used since the 1940s, was applied particularly in politics and journalism, and the work
so performed was also called a hatchet job. The magazine Newsweek had it on
July 27, 1968: “He’ll be the hatchet man . . . just like Nixon was in 1952.”
It also is used in other contexts, for example, “This critic did a real hatchet
job on her concert.” A related term is character assassination, dating from
about 1950, but it is no longer heard as often.
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