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Definition of "bury the hatchet" []

  • To stop fighting or arguing; to reach an agreement, or at least a truce. (verb)

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Use "bury the hatchet" in a sentence
  • "Within a very few years, Janin was to bury the hatchet of polemics beside Balzac's grave, and, forgetting the soreness generated in him by the Monography of the Press to constitute himself the dead author's apologist."