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  1. Burying the hatchet

    Bury the hatchet is an American English colloquialism meaning "to make peace." 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 concerning the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy and in Iroquois custom in general. Weapons were to be buried or otherwise cached in time of peace.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of burying the hatchet in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of burying the hatchet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

Examples of burying the hatchet in a Sentence

  1. Sydney Harris:

    There's no point in burying the hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.


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