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an olive branch

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an olive branch
hold out/offer an olive branch - to do or say something in order to show that you want to end a disagreement with someone. I've invited them around to dinner by way of an olive branch.
See also: branch, olive

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It was a triangular billet, on pink paper, and sealed with a dove and an olive branch, and a profusion of light blue sealing wax, and it was written in a very large, though undecided female hand.
The shield was flanked, on the right by an olive branch, on the left by a deer's antlers.
 
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