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to settle one's hash
To properly punish one. We also say, 'to settle his business;' 'to fix his flint.' Brave Prudhoe tr...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.
Plunder speedeth; spoil hasteth, (Isa. 8:1-3; comp. Zeph. 1:14), a name Isaiah was commanded first to write in large characters on a tablet, and afterwards to give as a symbolical name to a son that was to be born to him (Isa. 8:1, 3), as denoting the sudden attack on Damascus and Syria by the Assyrian army.
To properly punish one. We also say, 'to settle his business;' 'to fix his flint.' Brave Prudhoe tr...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.