- settle someone’s hash
- tv. to calm someone down, perhaps by threats or by violence.□ If he comes in here, I’ll settle his hash.□ Now, that ought to settle your hash.
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settle someone’s hash
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settle someone's hash — (slang) To silence or subdue someone • • • Main Entry: ↑hash * * * I informal deal with and subdue someone in no uncertain manner II see hash I … Useful english dictionary
settle someone's hash — ► settle someone s hash informal deal with and subdue someone in no uncertain manner. Main Entry: ↑hash … English terms dictionary
settle someone's hash — verb To physically or verbally subdue someone. Wait and see old Caleb Quirk get into the box. Ill settle his hash in half a minute … Wiktionary
settle someone's hash — informal deal with someone in a forceful and decisive manner. → hash … English new terms dictionary
settle one's hash — phrasal to silence or subdue someone by decisive action … New Collegiate Dictionary
hash — hash1 [hash] vt. [Fr hacher, to chop, mince: see HACHURE] 1. to chop (meat or vegetables) into small pieces for cooking 2. Informal to make a mess or botch of; bungle n. 1. a chopped mixture of cooked meat and vegetables, usually baked or browned … English World dictionary
hash — Ⅰ. hash [1] ► NOUN 1) a dish of diced cooked meat reheated with potatoes. 2) a jumble; a mess. ► VERB ▪ make or chop into a hash. ● make a hash of Cf. ↑make a hash of … English terms dictionary
hash — hash1 noun 1》 a dish of diced cooked meat reheated with potatoes. ↘N. Amer. a finely chopped mixture of food. 2》 a jumble; a mess. verb 1》 make or chop into a hash. 2》 (hash something out) come to agreement after lengthy and vigorous… … English new terms dictionary
hash — hash1 /hash/, n. 1. a dish of diced or chopped meat and often vegetables, as of leftover corned beef or veal and potatoes, sautéed in a frying pan or of meat, potatoes, and carrots cooked together in gravy. 2. a mess, jumble, or muddle: a hash of … Universalium
take someone down a peg or two — HUMBLE, humiliate, mortify, bring down, shame, embarrass, abash, put someone in their place, chasten, subdue, squash, deflate, make someone eat humble pie; informal show up, settle someone s hash, cut down to size; N. Amer. informal make someone… … Useful english dictionary
