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  • "He's coarse and butcherlike," sniffs a snooty matron about her young new doctor.

    By George, We've Got It 2008

  • As we will see, companies in both the industrial and service sectors have found that this new model can bring benefits not attainable by “cutting the fat,” “getting lean and mean,” or performing other “butcherlike” acts, as U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich likes to call them.

    Beyond the Bottom Line Joel Makower 1994

  • As we will see, companies in both the industrial and service sectors have found that this new model can bring benefits not attainable by “cutting the fat,” “getting lean and mean,” or performing other “butcherlike” acts, as U.S. Secretary of Labor Robert B. Reich likes to call them.

    Beyond the Bottom Line Joel Makower 1994

  • The wounded man's general health, already affected by the various annoyances he had recently experienced, began to give way; and at last, within three or four hours after the extraction of the ball, an operation that appears to have been performed in the most butcherlike manner, Zumalacarregui breathed his last.

    Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 358, August 1845 Various

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