hash over
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.
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Words nearby hash over
Hashimite, Hashimoto's disease, hashing, hashish, hash mark, hash over, hash-slinger, hashtag, Hasid, Hasidean, Hasidim
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