hash over

1. 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

That backlash has been exhaustively hashed over ever since, with critics often dividing the Armstrong legacy in two.

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As the court hashed over each detail of the leaflets, the judge and the Nazi lawyer focused on Helmuth, firing question after question at him.

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We also like to look backward, to hash over the conflicts and contradictions of democracy at a historical remove.

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There is much to hash over in this episode but space for only one last question: What is the final verdict on “Better Call Saul”?

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Jon Macks of Haymarket, Va., shared a story from his daughter-in-law, whose young daughters were jabbering away in the back seat of her car, endlessly hashing over the same subject.

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Related Words

• argue 
• confer 
• consider 
• debate 
• deliberate 
• examine 
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