单词 | to bury the hatchet |
释义 | > as lemmasto bury the hatchet a. To put under ground for the same purposes as a corpse, e.g. to bury a person alive; to consign to the ground any carcass, decaying organized matter, rubbish, etc.; also, other things, in sign of their final abandonment or abrogation. to bury the hatchet: see hatchet n. Phrases 2a(a); cf. also war-hatchet n. at war n.1 Compounds 4. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > be at peace [verb (intransitive)] > cease hostilities to sheathe the swordc1430 to bury the hatchet1535 truce1569 society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > make peace [verb (intransitive)] to make grithc1000 grith11.. to make peace?a1160 peasec1300 to inform the peace?a1400 to bury the hatchet1535 seal1596 pacificate1646 to beat swords into ploughshares1924 Locarnize1925 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > cover over or up > under the ground or bury delvec1175 indelve1382 mine?1440 dig1530 bury1535 inter1601 inhume1626 turf1628 earthen1708 inearth1801 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxii. 19 As an Asse shall he be buried. a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) v. i. 55 I'le breake my staffe, Bury it certaine fadomes in the earth. View more context for this quotation to bury the hatchet (a) to bury the hatchet: to stop fighting; to end a quarrel; to make peace. ΚΠ 1680 S. Sewall in New-Eng. Historical & Geneal. Reg. (1870) XXIV. 121 Meeting wth ye Sachem the[y] came to an agreemt and buried two Axes in ye Ground;..which ceremony to them is more significant & binding than all Articles of Peace the Hatchet being a principal weapon wth ym.] 1694 Acct. Treaty between Benjamin Fletcher & Indians of Five Nations 22 The French Indians should come to me, and desire to bury the Hatchet, as you have gone to Canada to do the like. 1754 in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1836) 3rd Ser. V. 10 We have ordered..our Governor of New York to hold an interview with them [sc. the Six Nations] for delivering those presents, [and] for burying the hatchet. 1794 J. Jay Corr. & Public Papers (1893) IV. 147 To use an Indian figure, may the hatchet henceforth be buried for ever. 1819 J. Heckewelder Acct. Hist., Manners, & Customs Indian Nations xii, in Trans. Hist. & Lit. Comm. Amer. Philos. Soc. 1 125 Metaphorical Expressions... ‘To bury the hatchet’,—To make, or conclude a peace. 1898 Sketch 3 Aug. 50/1 I asked papa how grown-ups made friends again, after they had quarrelled. He said, ‘Oh, they bury the hatchet and smoke the pipe of peace.’ 1930 Oxf. Ann. Girls 53/2 All that doesn't matter one hoot. You two ought to bury the hatchet, and start enjoying life. 2014 Radio Times 26 July (South/West ed.) 90/4 Taw Jackson and Lomax are two rivals who decide to bury the hatchet when Jackson is released from jail. < as lemmas |
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