Question
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. In each of the following questions, an idiom has been used in sentences in three different ways. Choose the option corresponding to the sentences in which the usage of the word is CORRECT or APPROPRIATE.Solution
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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