Have an axe to grind = to have a strong personal opinion about something that you want people to accept and that is the reason why you do something.
I have an axe to grind about fairness…
Or as dear Somerset (Maugham) used to say: “It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is. ”
What I have learned in business is to always dress up the truth in the most beautiful words I can muster.
When you paint like this, words are speechless…
By Julius von Klever.