| I don't have a connection with any one club, which is not a bad thing because I don't have an axe to grind. |
| It was like a monkey house, and the head monkeys were snooty intellectuals with an axe to grind. |
| A clever writer or editor with an axe to grind can paint a biased picture even in an apparently impartial report. |
| It's all innuendo and unsubstantiated intelligence given by people who clearly have an axe to grind. |
| Certainly, she has an axe to grind, and a battered reputation to rebuild, and so like most political memoirs this one is one-sided. |
| Many of those neighbours have an axe to grind with the former Yugoslav republic. |
