bury the hatchet

短语

和解, 停战

词形变化

buried the hatchet buries the hatchet 三单 buries the hatchet burying the hatchet burying the hatchet 现在分词 buried the hatchet 过去式 buried the hatchet 过去分词

释义与例句

v.
  1. 1.

    To cease fighting or arguing; to reach an agreement, or at least a truce.

    化干戈为玉帛

    言归于好

    和解

    重修旧好

    美国 习语

    They need to calm down and bury the hatchet before someone gets hurt.

词源

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 Americans 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 cached in time of peace.

来源：wiktionary