have an axe to grind

to have a strong opinion about something, which you are often trying to persuade other people is correct As a novelist, he has no political axe to grind.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Aline	[æ'li:n]
Silvester	sil-VES-tər (English)	Dutch, English, Slovene, Slovak, German, Late Roman
Rasul	-	Arabic
Ross	RAWS (English)	Scottish, English
Vera (2)	-	Albanian
Franziska	frahn-TSIS-kah	German