Most of the firms with an axe to grind are based in Silicon Valley.

ECONOMIST: And the winners are

And even if they are employees, maybe they have an axe to grind.

FORBES: Continued Questions About Patti Hart's Leadership At IGT

Everyone and their grandmother with an axe to grind is piling in and insisting that this or that must be allowed, abolished, forbidden or compulsory.

FORBES: News International and the Charlotte Church Countdown Clock

He may well have an axe to grind as well as a book to sell, but he is not the first person to call for Mr Ballmer to be replaced.

BBC: Microsoft's Steve Ballmer: Should he stay as boss?

DDoS attacks are among the most common attacks to take place between cyber punks with an axe to grind, and involve overloading a target site with so much traffic that it is taken offline.

FORBES: 'Biggest Cyber Attack In History' Could Have Been Carried Out With Just A Laptop

Bring somebody who has an axe to grind!

FORBES: The SSAC Interview of Chris Anderson & David Sally

"None of the members has an axe to grind, none of them are paid to do this work and all have an active part to play either on the periphery of heath care or involved as clinicians delivering care, " he said.

BBC: 'It isn't easy to say no'

Companies that have an axe to grind with the European Competition Commission will be more compelled to take legal action against it now that the regulator has been told for the first time to pay damages for misjudging the legality of a takeover.

FORBES: You CAN Fight City Hall

But it is a document, a big, fat document, that means you, I, charities, other governments, opponents, supporters, patients, teachers, parents, anyone with an axe to grind or a point to make can check whether what the government is doing is helping solve Wales' problems, or whether their intervention is having little or no, effect.

BBC: My big, fat Welsh annual report.