hash over

Idioms and Phrases

Also, hash out . Discuss carefully, review, as in Let's hash over these plans again , or The department was hashing out the new syllabus . This idiom uses the verb hash in the sense of “cut into small pieces,” a usage dating from the mid-1700s.

Example Sentences

It would be at least an hour before I could board the starship, with nothing to do but hash over old memories, better forgotten.

From Project Gutenberg

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