The Boston Globe, October 26th, 2003
DENNIS CAROTHERS, a reader from Needham, has a bone to pick with ax to grind. He's been hearing that idiom misused lately by TV commentators, he writes, "to mean something like `carrying a grudge."' For instance, when women began ratting out Arnold Schwarzenegger to the Los Angeles Times, just before the gubernatorial election, Fox TV's Bill O'Reilly noted that only two of the accusers had revealed their names - "and both of them have axes to grind against him." Well, no kidding. They had the same axes to grind as the unnamed women did - they resented the harassment, which was the point of the...
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