escape the ax

:  to get away (as by flight)

:  to issue from confinement

:  to run wild from cultivation

:  an act or instance of escaping: such as

:  flight from confinement

:  evasion of something undesirable

:  providing a means of escape

:  providing a means of evading a regulation, claim, or commitment

:  a cutting tool that consists of a heavy edged head fixed to a handle with the edge parallel to the handle and that is used especially for felling trees and chopping and splitting wood

:  a hammer with a sharp edge for dressing (see ¹dress 6e) or spalling stone

:  removal from office or release from employment :  dismissal

:  to shape, dress (see ¹dress 6e), or trim with an ax

:  to chop, split, or sever with an ax

:  to remove abruptly (as from employment or from a budget)

: axiom

: axis