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thrash out

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verb

  1. (tr, adverb) to discuss fully or vehemently, esp in order to come to a solution or agreement

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

thrash out Idioms  
  1. Discuss fully, especially to resolve a problem, as in We'll just have to thrash out our ideas about where to go on vacation. [Late 1800s]


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We should welcome a raucous, open primary to thrash out who we are and what and who we’re going to fight for.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

International regulators are still trying to thrash out environmental rules governing the industry.

From Barron's • Nov. 8, 2025

Hnath has constructed “A Doll’s House, Part 2” as a modern comedy of ideas, divided into a series of confrontations in which characters get to thrash out different perspectives on their shared history.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2025

He suggests that in time there could be a summit of the world's economic powers, where allies and rivals thrash out the revaluation of the dollar, perhaps at the president's Florida residence.

From BBC • Feb. 5, 2025

I'm just as sound as a dollar now and I'm wild to go with that gang the firm is sending up into British Columbia to thrash out that copper question.

From Rose of Old Harpeth by Daviess, Maria Thompson

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