a hatchet man

(informal)

someone who is employed by an organization to make changes that people do not like The hatchet man is called in whenever a company needs to reduce its staff.

See bury the hatchet

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Lilla	LEEL-law	Hungarian
Mcmullen	[mək'mʌlin]
Iman	-	Arabic, Persian, Indonesian
Judita	-	Lithuanian, Czech, Slovak
Devraj	-	Indian, Hindi
Heli (1)	-	Biblical, Biblical Latin