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单词 to lay aside the tomahawk
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to lay aside (also down) the tomahawk
b. to take up (also raise) the tomahawk: to declare war; to begin fighting; (more generally) to commence hostilities. Similarly, to lay aside (also down) the tomahawk: to cease hostilities; to come to terms. Cf. earlier to take up the hatchet at hatchet n. Phrases 2b. Now rare.
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1775 J. Adair Hist. Amer. Indians 239 I persuaded the Choktah to take up the bloody tomohawk against those perfidious French.
1791 Lloyd's Evening-Post 4 Nov. 1057/2 If we had our senses about us, we should not have taken up the tomahawk on either side.
1806 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi (1810) 86 Grateful that the two nations had laid aside the tomahawk at my request.
1814 H. M. Brackenridge Views Louisiana ii. v. 123 They may come here in peace, or for the purpose of trade, but it will be far hence that they will dare to raise the tomahawk.
1906 Ames (Iowa) Times 16 Aug. 1/3 They had better lay down the tomahawk and try and get together.
1946 Hope (Arkansas) Star 22 June 1/2 In Boston the OPA took up the tomahawk against black marketeers as butchers gloomily pointed at their bare shelves.
1991 G. F. G. Stanley in J. R. Miller Sweet Promises 105 It is not surprising to find both contestants seeking the aid of such Indian warriors as were prepared to take up the tomahawk on their behalf.
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