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settle someone's hash



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Idioms and Phrases

Subdue or get rid of someone, deal with a troublemaker, as in If John starts another argument we know just how to settle his hash . This term, dating from about 1800, uses hash in the sense of “a mess.”

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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