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branch office
branch out
hold out the olive branch
Idiom(s): hold out the olive branchTheme: RECONCILIATION
to offer to end a dispute and be friendly; to offer reconciliation. (The olive branch is a symbol of peace and reconciliation. A biblical reference.)
• Jill was the first to hold out the olive branch after our argument.
• I always try to hold out the olive branch to someone I have hurt. Life is too short for a person to bear grudges for very long.
Olive branch
If you hold out or offer an olive branch, you make a gesture to indicate that you want peace.branch off|branch
v. To go from something big or important to something smaller or less important; turn aside. At the bridge a little road branches off from the highway and follows the river. Martin was trying to study his lesson, but his mind kept branching off onto what girl he should ask to go with him to the dance.branch out|branch
v. To add new interests or activities; begin doing other things also. First Jane collected stamps; then she branched out and collected coins, too. John started a television repair shop; when he did well, he branched out and began selling television sets too.olive branch|branch|olive
n. phr. An overture; a symbol of peace. Tired of the constant fighting, the majority government extended an olive branch to the militant minority.branch
branchIn addition to the idioms beginning with branch, also see olive branch; root and branch.
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- branch off
- branch out
branch off
branch offDiverge, subdivide, as in It's the house on the left, just after the road branches off, or English and Dutch branched off from an older parent language, West Germanic. This term alludes to a tree's growth pattern, in which branches grow in separate directions from the main trunk. [Second half of 1800s] Also see branch out.
root and branch
root and branchUtterly, completely, as in The company has been transformed root and branch by the new management. Alluding to both the underground and aboveground parts of a tree, this idiom was first recorded in 1640.
bet the ranch
To accident aggregate on a adventure that one thinks will be successful. Primarily heard in US. I wouldn't bet the agronomical on that absurd invention. He's bankrupt now because he bet the agronomical on a bootless business venture.Learn more: bet, ranchbet the ranch
mainly AMERICANIf you bet the ranch, you booty a big accident in accomplishing something, sometimes spending all your money to do it. I wasn't activity to bet the agronomical on the stocks. It was a adventurous action pushed through admitting warnings that it would be a disaster. He bet the agronomical and he won.Learn more: bet, ranchbet the ˈfarm/ˈranch
(American English) accident aggregate that you accept on something: It ability accomplish but don’t bet the acreage on it. ♢ It’s a bet-the-farm situation.Learn more: bet, farm, ranch
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