to reach a decision or agreement after discussing it or arguing about it for a long time
A new deal was hammered out between the two banks.
Christian got a hammer out of his pocket and knocked the padlock off on the first hit: `It's through here.
In the end he had managed to hammer out a rough track that allowed the pickup truck to get up into the canyon.
We'll hammer out an updated report that will surely convince Lloyd's and the cops that we're right about Brunner.
We're going to hammer out the details of how we can pension off Desmond, evict that shady adventurer Hall and close down St Paul's.
hammers out
hammering out
hammered out
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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