Bury the hatchet
I. The two countries decided to bury the hatchet and work towards the welfare of the people.
II. I hope that one day, they will bury the hatchet and go fishing together, like they used to.
III. You have to sleep well before the exams or you will bury the hatchet.
The idiom ‘bury the hatchet’ means ‘to stop an argument and become friends again’. In I and II, we can decipher the meaning of the idiom, but in III, it is incorrectly used.
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