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axe or hatchet? #1 (permalink) Sun Mar 15, 2009 18:29 pm   axe or hatchet?
 

We should say : "We should never have quarrelled like that. Let's bury the axe and for get all about it" or "We should never quarrelled like that. Let's bury the hatchet and forget all about it" ?
Thanks for help in advance !
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axe or hatchet? #2 (permalink) Sun Mar 15, 2009 23:30 pm   axe or hatchet?
 

bury the hatchet
to forget about arguments and disagreements with someone and to become friends with them again
It had been over a year since the incident and I thought it was time we buried the hatchet.

(from Cambridge International Dictionary of Idioms)
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axe or hatchet? #3 (permalink) Mon Mar 16, 2009 9:42 am   axe or hatchet?
 

Hi Milanya!

I also find one idom in Longman dictionary like you .
But the answer in my book is "bury the axe" .
Maybe this one is a mistake by the writer or printer .

Thanks for help !
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