hang up (one's) hatchet
hang up (one's) hatchet
1. To make peace with someone. It is most likely an earlier version of the phrase "bury the hatchet." Can you please hang up your hatchet and make up with your sister already? I can't take the constant fighting.
2. To take a break from work; to stop working. Hang up your hatchet, buddy, it's lunchtime! It's really time for me to hang up my hatchet and find a new job somewhere else.
See also: hang, hatchet, up
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- bury the hatchet
- bury the hatchet, to
- hatchet
- do a hatchet job on
- do a hatchet job on (someone or something)
- hatchet job
- a hatchet job
- take up the hatchet
- great minds
- great minds think alike