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Discover LudwigThe phrase "axe over" is not correct or commonly used in written English.
It may be an attempt to convey a specific action or metaphor, but without context, it does not have a clear meaning.
Example: "He decided to axe over the old plans and start fresh."
Alternatives: "cut over" or "scrap over".
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This leaves its users with an axe over our heads.
We see an axe, over here; that's to knock out the animals.
It had a man on the cover with an axe over his shoulder but no shirt.
"When the Ukraine stuff comes to pass, Jared now is holding the axe over Paul's head," the campaign official said.
Alexei Venediktov, editor of Echo Moskvy, a radio station, comments that "Mr Putin has tied an axe over the head of the elite.
It was reported on Wednesday that Clarkson had been cleared to present the programme, despite the BBC axe over what was initially termed a "fracas".
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Finally I put both axes over the top of the rock and locked them together.
The letter also reveals that around 300,000 public sector jobs could be axed over the next three years.
Protocols with non-orthogonal axes are also studied by varying the angle ϕ between rotation axes over 15°≤ϕ≤90° (in 15° increments).
Van Beurden knows what failure looks like, as he was a personal assistant to former chairman Sir Philip Watts when Watts was axed over the reserves scandal of 2004.
Edinburgh-based RBS said the positions would be axed over the next two years as part of plans to restructure its retail head office functions in the UK.
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