settle someone's hash
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editsettle someone's hash (third-person singular simple present settles someone's hash, present participle settling someone's hash, simple past and past participle settled someone's hash)
- (idiomatic) To physically or verbally subdue someone.
- 1851, S. G. Warren, Ten Thousand a Year, Jesper Harding, page 344:
- Wait and see old Caleb Quirk get into the box. I'll settle his hash in half a minute.
- 1913, D[avid] H[erbert] Lawrence, “chapter 13”, in Sons and Lovers, London: Duckworth & Co. […], →OCLC:
- “But wait till I light on you, no matter where it is, I’ll settle your hash for a bit, yer little swine!”
- 2004 July 8–14, "Devious Rabbit Tricks Bush Into Signing Gun Ban", The Onion, available in Embedded in America, →ISBN, page 202,
- "Sez Pezziden' Bush, sezee, 'I'm gwine ter settle yo' hash, ole Rabbit....'"
Translations
editTo physically or verbally subdue someone.
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References
edit- “settle someone's hash”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.