hatchet man

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John Smith is the hatchet man for the Mayor's Party; he smears all the other candidates regularly.
约翰·史密斯是市长一派雇用来破坏他人名誉的作家，他按时攻击所有其他的侯选人。
"Up in the Air," starring George Clooney as a corporate hatchet man forced to consider his life's direction, took home nominations for bestfilm drama and for Clooney as best actor.
《悬而未决》获本届金球奖最佳影片提名，其主演乔治•克鲁尼凭借该片获得最佳男演员提名。克鲁尼在片中饰演一个公司裁员专家，后(因自己遭遇职业危机)不得不重新思考人生方向。
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All of us are the employees whom the texts record seafood, the boss cans not find a body, hatchet man institution machine, we could not take the labor cost of default.
我们都是文记海鲜的员工，老板找不到人，打手机关机，我们拿不到拖欠的工资。

Today, the courts of a European nation proudly assume the role of hatchet man for conquering Islam.
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While the hatchet man and deal-maker, Mr Kanemaru, managed the opposition with wads of money passed beneath the table, the wily Mr Takeshita ran the government using his extensive network within the ruling party and the upper echelons of the bureaucracy.
ECONOMIST: Noboru Takeshita
Their chair was ready for its first victim: William Kemmler, a Buffalo man who had murdered his wife with a hatchet.
FORBES: The Warlock of Menlo Park

You can refer to someone who makes changes in an organization by getting rid of lots of people as a hatchet man, especially if you think they do so in an unnecessarily harsh way.