have an axe to grind
Definition
› to have a strong personal opinion about something that you want people to accept and that is the reason why you do something: Environmentalists have no political axe to grind - they just want to save the planet.Continually thinking about
(Definition of have an axe to grind from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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have a whale of a time idiom
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have a word in sb's ear idiom
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have a, some, etc. say in sth idiom
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have all the cares of the world on your shoulders idiom
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have an accident idiom
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have an ear for sth idiom
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have an eye for sth idiom
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have an eye to/for the main chance idiom
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have another/more than one string to your bow idiom
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have ants in your pants idiom
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- absorb verb (INTEREST VERY MUCH)
- absorbed adjective
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- fix verb (KEEP)
- fixation noun
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- obsession noun
- obsessive adjective
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