Brewer's: Settle your Hask

(To). “To cook his goose;” or “make mince-meat of him.” Our slang is full of similar phrases.

About earls as goes mad in their castles, And females what settles their hash.

Sims: Dagonet Ballads (Polly).

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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