Al Madrigal

I was a corporate hatchet man, and it's impossible for me to turn that off. It's this curse when I walk into businesses: 'That needs to be fixed, that needs to be fixed.

American Comedian

Bret Hart

I always tell people you can't make peace half way: to make peace with somebody, you have to make peace and bury the hatchet, or you just keep fighting forever.

Canadian Wrestler

Carry Nation

I felt invincible. My strength was that of a giant. God was certainly standing by me. I smashed five saloons with rocks before I ever took a hatchet.

American Activist

Ken Shamrock

I learned a long time ago that you need to bury the hatchet. No need to hold grudges. That only weighs you down.

American Athlete

Ted Cassidy

There's not too much opportunity to do that in ordinary life... there's not too much call for hatchet throwers.

American Actor

Eric Weinstein

If you're allowing the political environment to infect your relationships, it's time to bury the hatchets.

American Mathematician

Muhammad Ali Jinnah

If you will work in co-operation, forgetting the past, burying the hatchet, you are bound to succeed.

Pakistani Politician

Sydney J. Harris

There's no point in burying a hatchet if you're going to put up a marker on the site.

American Journalist

Wild Bill Hickok

When the war closed, I buried the hatchet, and I won't fight now unless I'm put upon.

American Celebrity

Kin Hubbard

Nobody ever forgets where he buried the hatchet.

Remember a hatchet is primarily a tool. Don't confuse its use with its weapon form.

Tool Not Weapon

Hatchets are smaller than axes and are often used for tasks requiring less force.

Small and Handy

The word 'hatchet' can evoke a sense of danger or violence when referred to as a weapon.

Violent Connotation

It’s uncommon to use a hatchet as a weapon, so this sense is often seen in figurative or extreme contexts.

Rarely Weaponized

When 'hatchet' is used as a verb, it suggests involved, sometimes rough, creation or clearing.

Active Creation

As a verb, 'hatchet' can also be used figuratively to describe a forceful action.

Figurative Use

The phrase 'bury the hatchet' is an idiom meaning to end a dispute and make peace.

Idiomatic Peace

Some idiomatic expressions using 'hatchet' imply aggression or criticism, such as 'a hatchet job.'

Negative Idioms

Understanding 'bury the hatchet' requires knowledge of its historical use in peace agreements.

Cultural Reference

 on a hot day in the tropics, so I said sure. And he whipped out his cellphone, dialed the number, and a voice said, "I'm up here." And right on top of the nearest coconut tree, with a hatchet in one hand and a cell phone in the other, was a local toddy tapper, who proceeded to bring down the coconuts for us to drink.

Why nations should...

 about four times the price of chicken I feel like I'm more accurate with a bow and arrow so if I can get a bow made maybe that'll give me an edge that will let me make those difficult shots basically just using a hatchet a knife

Hatchet

Tool Not Weapon

Small and Handy

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