The word "slash" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it to describe a diagonal line or when you want to indicate a separate category. For example, you could say "We saw a slash of bright blue in the sky."
Cowen and his administration might even borrow a phrase from Maggie when faced with criticism that their tax and slash budget crucified PAYE workers and their families in this Holy Week.
The Tories enjoyed a 5.5% swing among over-65s, whom they have shamelessly cultivated with promises to slash inheritance tax and shield pensioners from austerity.
The seemingly sober Dutchman succeeded to the top job at the start of last year, promising to slash spending and sell underperforming assets.
The vast majority of Irish renewable power comes from onshore wind, a sector from which the Tories in the UK have promised to slash subsidies.
The drastic cut was part of a Dutch government decision taken last year to slash the culture budget of €800m by 25%%.
In Kirklees, Yorkshire, Green councillors delivered a universal free insulation scheme that will slash the bills of 40,000 households, while also creating jobs, providing training, and cutting carbon emissions.
The Conservatives may not reveal details of plans to slash £12bn from the benefits bill before voters go to the polls on 7 May, Iain Duncan Smith has said.
A plan to slash the rebate for short consultations by $20 was also binned in January.
On Wednesday, activist shareholders at Chevron, led by campaign group As You Sow, will attend the company's annual meeting in San Ramon, California, inviting fellow investors to vote in favour of a resolution they have filed calling for Chevron to slash its upstream capital spending and to return the unused cash to shareholders.
I'd moan about how unbearably smug this must make all those stupid optimists, but my time here is limited and it'd probably only slash a couple more months off my life.
Softening up the Irish public for a round of cuts and tax hikes, the taoiseach used a live televised address to explain why the government had to slash programmes and raise VAT.
