bury the hatchet

Meaning

Verb

• To stop fighting or arguing; to reach an agreement, or at least a truce.

Origin

• 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 American in the Eastern United States, specifically during the formation of the Iroquois Confederacy, and in Iroquois custom in general. Weapons were to be buried or otherwise cache in time of peace.