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2022-04-11 11:04
Settle accounts phrase
To pay the money that you owed someone or receive the money that someone owed you.
After settling accounts with him, I only had 10$ left.
I have to settle accounts with him before the new year comes.
To hurt someone or do something harmful to them because they have done or said something harmful to you.
I don't want to settle accounts with those insulting me.
He hugged his daughter's lifeless body in his arms and swore to settle accounts with her killer.
To retaliate against someone.
To treat someone badly in the same way they have treated you
To do something disadvantageous or harmful to yourself in order to hurt someone else
To want to avenge
The verb "settle" must be conjugated according to its tense.
The origin of this phrase is not clear.
Do you see anything wrong?
A humorous way of saying that what one has said is just what they acknowledge and may not be entirely accurate
Mike: Have you returned from your vacation on the beach? Your skin seems to get tanned.
Jenny: My skin is always dark. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!
