ax to grind

Idioms and Phrases. A selfish aim or motive

People who have a need to project their self-importance will do so any which way they can 🧐

Contemporary technologies provide such people with a lot of “low-hanging fruit” to speak.

They will “champion” particular devices, apps and operating systems in order to feed their egos and not necessarily to help you affect a positive outcome for your technology-related task at hand.

The ax metaphor is apropos because egotistical people can give you some very destructive advice — please remember it is all about them.

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 Remember that only small people need to make themselves look big.