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View synonyms for bury the hatchet
bury the hatchet
- To agree to end a quarrel: “Jerry and Cindy had been avoiding each other since the divorce, but I saw them together this morning, so they must have buried the hatchet.”
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Make peace; settle one's differences. For example, Toward the end of the year, the roommates finally decided to bury the hatchet . Although some believe this term comes from a Native American custom for declaring peace between warring tribes, others say it comes from hang up one's hatchet , a term dating from the early 1300s (well before Columbus landed in the New World). The word bury replaced hang up in the 1700s.Advertisement
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