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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: The Men Who Killed Google
Date: Wed, 24 Apr 2024 15:00:13 -0000 (UTC)
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Sn!pe <snipeco.2@gmail.com> wrote at 14:47 this Wednesday (GMT):
> candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
> wrote:
[snip]
>> It was interesting. What's a hatchet job? I don't think I've heard that
>> expression before.
>>
>
> More or less, it's character assassination (not that I have any reason
> to doubt the veracity of the report).
>
> OED (Apple edition):
>
> hatchet job
> noun informal
> a fierce written attack on someone or their work: 
> she does hatchet jobs, not reviews.
>
> character assassination
> noun [mass noun]
> the malicious and unjustified harming of a person's good reputation: 
> all too often they discredit themselves by engaging in character
> assassination.


Oh, thanks.
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