They reckoned he was a hatchet man, out to shred the workforce and crush the union.他们估计他是上司派来的刽子手，专门对工人大开杀戒，大肆镇压工会。He always had a hatchet man do the dirty work for him.他总是找一名打手为他干这样的卑鄙勾当。That hatchet man released rumors of a sex scandal to the press.那个撰文者把桃色丑闻泄露给新闻界。