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hack something out of something

 and hack something out 

1. to cut or chop something out of something. Jill hacked the bone out of the roast. She hacked out the big bone.

2. to fashion something by carving or chiseling from something. He hacked a rabbit out of the chunk of wood. In no time, the carver had hacked out a rabbit.

See also: hack, of, out