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Phrase(s): together. slash and burn
1. Lit. of a farming technique where vegetation is cut down and burned before crops are planted. (Hyphenated before nominals.) • The small farmers’ slash-and-burn technique destroyed thousands of acres of forest. 2. Fig. of a crude and brash way of doing something. (Hyphenated before nominals.) • The new manager’s method was strictly slash and burn. He looks decisive to his boss and merciless to the people he fires.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs