0 something that you say or do in order to show that you want to end a disagreement with someone: --
It is, so to speak, the consultation olive branch as regards the change in designation.
I shall not attempt to wield the tomahawk to cut down that olive branch now that it has been brought before us.
Cannot we offer him petrol rationing with one hand, and an olive branch with the other?
It is not an olive branch, because for an olive branch to succeed it must bear some kind of practical resemblance to the tree.
I throw out that suggestion as an olive branch.
But that olive branch has been rejected with contumely by the promoters.
Would he not ask his senior colleagues to pick up what is quite clearly an olive branch?
Already the waters are receding and shortly the dove will alight with the olive branch.
