hatchet man

On that account, he was doing as the hatchet man had done.

They were watching the door, the one place from which the hatchet man thought trouble might come.

Your hatchet man Coal has done a number on me with the press.

The hatchet man in the hotel room had come from the Chinese district.

The Shadow was just within the range that the hatchet man required.

"Friday, do you want to change tracks and become a hatchet man?"

Andy was sure that the hatchet man had come after him by mistake.

He recognized that the murder was the work of a Chinese hatchet man.

Here is where Clinton's political hatchet man gets mean.

Security even had a specialist whose only duty was to fire people: the hatchet man.

It was time to move in the hatchet man.

With a soft smile and gentle eyes, he hardly looks like a hatchet man.

Mr. Bush had served as the red team's hatchet man.

"I thought you were supposed to be a philosopher, not a hatchet man.

Her real profession is the same as yours-honorable hatchet man.

THE hatchet man seemed to turn himself inside out as he struck the floor.

But he won a chilling reputation among the society's faithful as a hatchet man.

Dole is a hatchet man, a mean guy given to angry outbursts?

Every institution, apparently, needs its hatchet man these days.

The hatchet men were also known to use many different materials as body armor, with varying success.

It was the hatchet man, driving in from a new angle - but not an unexpected one.

But one kind of mean fellow said Bob had been a Republican hatchet man.

He has been called a "hatchet man" in a New York newspaper.

"He's not a hatchet man, but he has put himself against those people who think they are the keepers of the classical tradition."

A slanderer working for political purposes - See "hatchet man".