To bury the hatchet is to agree to stop fighting and forget the quarrel. Time to bury the hatchet, they buried the hatchet, bury the hatchet at last.
It alludes to a Native American practice of putting weapons away when hostilities ended. To bury the hatchet implies a real reconciliation rather than a truce, since it is not meant to be dug up.
1phrasebury the hatchetTo agree to stop fighting and forget the quarrel.
“After years of not speaking, the two brothers decided to bury the hatchet at their father's funeral.”
bury the hatchet is a reconciling.
From a Native American practice of putting a tomahawk away when hostilities ceased.
The phrase is an allusion to the figurative or literal practice of putting away the tomahawk at the cessation of hostilities among or by Native American in the Eastern United States, specifically during the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy, and in Iroquois custom in general. Weapons were to be buried or otherwise cache in time of peace.
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