I was just wondering where the saying having an axe to grind originated, I am a bit of a blacksmith if not a wordsmith. He always criticizes the company's policies because he has an axe to grind due to a previous disagreement. Her constant complaints about the project reveal that she has an axe to grind and wants to undermine its success. It's important to consider someone's hidden agenda when they have an axe to grind and may not have genuine intentions. They seem to have an axe to grind with the organization, as they continuously spread negative rumours. This saying most likely originates from an essay called "Who'll Turn Grindstones?", which was written in 1810 by Charles Miner, editor of Pennsylvania's "The Gleaner and Luzerne Advertiser." His essay features the saying "to have an axe to grind." "When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter, thinks I, that man has an axe to grind." Competing Theory "To have an axe to grind" originates from a story told by Founding Father of the United States Benjamin Franklin (1706-90), in which a man is tricked into turning a grindstone to brighten an axe. "Like the Man who in buying an Ax of a Smith my Neighbor, desired to have the whole of its Surface as bright as the Edge; the Smith consented to grind it bright for him if he would turn the Wheel. He turn'd while the Smith press'd the broad Face of the Ax hard & heavily on the Stone, which made the Turning of it very fatiguing. The Man came every now & then from the Wheel to see how the Work went on; and at length would take his Ax as it was without farther Grinding. No, says the Smith, Turn on, turn on; we shall have it bright by and by; as yet 'tis only speckled." Note that the US spelling is "ax," although "axe" is also used in America. Also, note that the common nouns in this text (e.g., Man, Ax, Neighbor) were written with capital letters. Detractors of this origin highlight that Franklin's reference to axe-grinding does not feature the words "an axe to grind" and does not directly frame the axe-grinding in terms of a grievance. Competing Theory The term "an axe to grind" with a meaning related to holding a grievance originates from James Joyce's "Ulysses," which was published in 1922. "Skin-the-Goat, assuming he was he, evidently with an axe to grind, was airing his grievances in a forcible-feeble philippic anent the natural resources of Ireland or something of that sort which he described in his lengthy dissertation as the richest country bar none on the face of God's earth..." (James Joyce was an Irish writer who lived 1882-1941. "Skin-the-Goat" was the nickname of James Fitzharris (1833-1910), a member of the Dublin-based "Invincibles," who were a splinter group of the Irish Republican Brotherhood.)
My uncle's assisted living place was successfully sued by his son and daughter for not giving him his flu shot before the season started. He died the day after Christmas. At no point did the care home apartments (he put himself there as he had a couple of friends, house was too big etc.) raise that seasonal flu shots don't work anyway, providing they predict the variant OK that year. Actually I'd probably go with this one... An axe to grind or an attention seeking disorder combined with refusing to admit she has narcissistically abused her should-be loved ones? The first known use of the term "an axe to grind" was in an essay called "Who'll Turn Grindstones?", which was written in 1810 by Charles Miner, editor of Pennsylvania's "The Gleaner and Luzerne Advertiser." In the essay, Miner uses the phrase to describe someone who has a personal agenda or bias. He writes: "When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy and throwing half his goods on the counter, thinks I, that man has an axe to grind." The phrase has since come to be used more generally to describe someone who is motivated by self-interest or prejudice, rather than by a desire to be objective or impartial.
So the boosters didn't kill people as you predicted so you want them to take 100. LMAO, what a great scientist you are.
The left can’t meme. And they are unbelievably stupid. And they project their scientism on anyone who they try to overpower. But they are so often mind blowingly wrong - and so fucking corrupt - that they have cost the credibility of a multi century breakthrough in human advancement. The losers who follow them are the worst kind of mouth breather you’d ever wish on this planet.
You guys are lame - you post nothing of substance to refute the awful decisions you’ve made and the nonsense medical tyranny you push on others.
Trump supporter whining about corruption and lies, next he will virtue signal about not cheating on wives and not running fake universities.
You clearly aren’t following what’s going on in terms of excess death. You are being well distracted…good boy!!!