offer an olive branch (to someone)
offer an olive branch (to someone)
To extend an offer or gesture of peace, reconciliation, truce, etc. (to someone), so as to end a disagreement or dispute. (Can also be formulated as "offer someone an olive branch.") The conservatives in Congress seem to be offering an olive branch to Democrats on the issue of raising the debt ceiling. If you find yourself in a spat with a friend, try to be the bigger person and be the one to offer an olive branch. I was still hurt by the way my parents had lied to me, but I decided to offer them an olive branch at Christmas.
See also: branch, offer, olive
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
- hold out an olive branch
- hold out an olive branch (to someone)
- hold out the olive branch (to someone)
- hold out/offer an olive branch
- hold out an/the olive branch
- hold out the olive branch
- a difference of opinion
- in dispute
- have a beef with (someone or something)
- get square with (one)