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Meanings of lay the axe in English
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Usage of lay the axe in English
1
They should not lop off the branches, but lay the axe to the root.
2
Hiram is about to lay the axe to its roots, when the King appears.
3
Why not, then, at once lay the axe to the root of the mischief?
4
Does he come with his people to lay the axe Groan-Maker in my hands?
5
Is he going to lay the axe at the very roots of our national prosperity?
6
Let us lay the axe to the very root of this evil and hew it down.
7
We lay the axe beneath his head
8
We, therefore, in the language of the Bible, must " lay the axe to the root of the tree."
9
True, it was only an economical question, but it seemed to him to lay the axe to the root of Southern prosperity.
10
But let us lay the axe to the very root of our life, that, being cleansed from affections, we may possess our souls in peace.
11
But God, not the Roman Cæsar merely, was laying the axe.
12
Then he laid the axe down across the wheelbarrow, and went into the barn again.
13
For, by aiming at the abolition of the Slave-trade, they were laying the axe at the very root.
14
As Dick laid the axe down in a corner he heard a sobbing sound from a room nearby.
15
He was attacking a great sin and, as usual, He laid the axe at the root of the tree.
16
Mayer lays the axe to the root of the notions regarding 'vital force' which were prevalent when he wrote.