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Experience the thrill of throwing an axe at a wooden target at Bury The Hatchet. All of our indoor axe throwing ranges have multiple lanes where customers get a one of a kind experience in a fun urban setting.
Exactly 50 years after the Battle of Little Bighorn, in 1926, Sioux Indian Chief White Bull and General Edward Settle Godfrey buried the hatchet at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Garryowen, Montana.
The figurative expression ‘burying the hatchet’ is different in that it did originate as an American Indian tradition. Hatchets were buried by the chiefs of tribes when they came to a peace agreement. Not just a B-movie plot device – hatchets really did get buried.
to agree to end the disagreement that has divided two people or groups: After years of fighting over who should have gotten Dad's money, my brothers finally buried the hatchet. (Definition of bury the hatchet from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)
bury the hatchet, to. To make peace or call a truce. Some North American Indian tribes declared peace by burying a tomahawk, a custom described by Samuel Sewell in 1680 and referred to again in subsequent accounts of the American colonies.
To bury the hatchet is an American English idiomatic expression that means to make peace. It is considered an idiom because we use its figurative definition over its literal meaning. When you and your long-time enemy are burying the hatchet, you forgive each other and reconcile.
Bury the Hatchet Meaning of Idiom ‘Bury the Hatchet’ To bury the hatchet means to make peace; to settle one’s difference; to stop arguing or fighting; to put an end to old resentments.
