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Hammer out   /hˈæmər aʊt/   Listen
Hammer out

verb
1.
Discuss vehemently in order to reach a solution or an agreement.  Synonym: thrash out.






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"Hammer out" Quotes from Famous Books



... to drape the least dignified attitudes. The grand air of the twelfth century is something like that of a Greek temple; you can, if you like, hammer every separate stone to pieces, but you cannot hammer out the Greek style. There were originally twenty-four of these statues, and nineteen remain. Beginning at the north end, and passing over the first figure, which carries a head that does not belong to it, notice the second, a king with a long sceptre of empire, a book of law, ...
— Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres • Henry Adams

... individual and distinctive charm which we call "Style." It may be said, therefore, that the technical limitations of particular mediums impose what might properly be called natural conventions; and while misguided ambition may set these conventions aside to hammer out effects from an unwilling medium, the triumph is only mechanical; Art ...
— Pen Drawing - An Illustrated Treatise • Charles Maginnis



Words linked to "Hammer out" :   talk over, hash out, discuss



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