take up the hatchet (English, verb)
expansion: take up the hatchet (third-person singular simple present takes up the hatchet, present participle taking up the hatchet, simple past took up the hatchet, past participle taken up the hatchet)
Senses:
glosses: To declare war or go to war.
tags: archaic
idiomatic
Forms:
form: takes up the hatchet
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: taking up the hatchet
tags: participle
present
form: took up the hatchet
tags: past
form: taken up the hatchet
tags: participle
past