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hold out/offer an olive branch
Definition
› to do or say something in order to show that you want to end a disagreement with someone: He held out an olive branch to the opposition by releasing 42 political prisoners.Peace
(Definition of hold out/offer an olive branch from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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hold onto/on to sth phrasal verb
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hold out for sth phrasal verb
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hold out on sb phrasal verb
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hold out phrasal verb (DEFEND)
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hold out phrasal verb (SUPPLY OF STH)
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hold sb in high/low repute idiom
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hold sb off phrasal verb
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hold sb to ransom idiom
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hold sb to sth phrasal verb
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hold sb/sth back phrasal verb (STOP DEVELOPMENT)
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SMART Thesaurus: Peace
Synonyms and related words:
- anti-war adjective
- concord noun
- dove noun (PERSON)
- non-aggression noun
- non-violence noun
- pacific adjective
- pacifism noun
- pacifist noun
- Pax noun
- peace noun (NO VIOLENCE)
- peace offering noun
- peace-loving adjective
- peaceable adjective
- peaceful adjective (NO VIOLENCE)
- peacekeeping noun
- peacetime noun
- phoney war noun
- truce noun
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