So I hear this conversation,
"Let's bury the hatchet"
"Consider it squashed"
probably the meaning of this conversation is something like:
"lets stop arguing"
"settled"
BUT one says "bury the hatchet" and the other says "consider 'burying the hatchet' squashed', right?
SO shouldn't this mean the proposal for quit the argument was rejected as follows?
"lets stop arguing"
"no way"
????
If it went like
Bob: I'm sorry for picking a fight with you last night.
Dave: It's squashed.
"http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Squ...
then you are squashing the fact Bob fought with Dave so it is settled.
But... this?
Can somebody tell me if those two lines of conversation make sense? I feel those two sentences are wrongfully put together... or is it just me?
I am very confused, please help me understand...
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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.
The "it" in "Consider it squashed" is the hatchet, ie, the disagreement.
So this is indeed an offer of peace and an acceptance of the offer.
The word is QUASHED, not squashed.
Quashed means to reject an idea.
So the first guy asks to end the argument, and the second is saying that the original argument is rejected, not the request to end the argument.
In other words, let's not fight. Okay.