Settle accounts In english explanation

The meaning, explanation, definition and origin of the idiom/phrase "settle accounts", English Idiom Dictionary ( also found in Vietnamese )

author Zesty Y calendar 2022-04-11 11:04

Meaning of Settle accounts

Synonyms:

square accounts

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.

Other phrases about:

settle old scores (with someone)

To retaliate against someone.

give (one) a taste of (one's) own medicine

To treat someone badly in the same way they have treated you

cut off (one's) nose to spite (one's) face

To do something disadvantageous or harmful to yourself in order to hurt someone else

be after (one's) blood

To want to avenge 

give me tit for tat
To give someone something equal to what they have given you 

Grammar and Usage of Settle accounts

Verb Forms

  • settled accounts
  • Settling Accounts

The verb "settle" must be conjugated according to its tense.
 

Origin of Settle accounts

The origin of this phrase is not clear.
 

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