peace offering
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- noun
- /piːs ˈɔːfərɪŋ/
- After their disagreement, she gave him a peace offering in the form of a homemade cake.
- make a peace offering
- accept the peace offering
- bring a peace offering
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- Which is why I brought these few small peace offerings.
- The narcissistic person will then quickly try to make various sort of peace offerings.
Examples
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This evening, on my commute back home from work, I saw this rainbow—suppose it's nature's pretty peace offering following the ugliness of a particularly stormy night?
Blog text (6) -
The next night, James was back at about ten-thirty with a six-pack of Rolling Rock and a peace offering.
Fiction book (1994) -
Here, this is a peace offering.
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Look, I brought you a little gift, a little peace offering.
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I just came to make a peace offering.
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I brought you a little peace offering.
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Here is my peace offering.
Academic text (2014) -
Please see this invite as a peace offering.
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I know how you like special pets, so I brought you a peace offering.
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Unexpectedly, she smiled at me—a peace offering.
Fiction book (2002)
Synonyms
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A gesture showing a wish to make peace after a disagreement
Antonyms
How Reconciliatory
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- Informal
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Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a gift or gesture to restore friendly relations' is directly and compositionally derived from 'peace' (friendly relations) + 'offering' (something offered/a gift). This noun+noun pattern expressing purpose or intent is cross-linguistically common and easily predictable, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.
Etymology
Peace offering may come from the simple image of someone holding out a gift or an olive branch to stop a fight. Because a person gives an offering to bring peace, the phrase now means a present or small gesture to 'restore friendly relations' or 'end a disagreement'.