It's a very strange strategy when somebody offers you an olive branch and you use it to stick him in the eyeball,

You have to have an olive branch, always. You have to have amnesties. You have to have a path always open to let the enemy back down, get off the limb, become reassimilated.

Hold out the olive branch

We're willing to hold out our version of an olive branch.

European leaders are expected to disagree with Bush's olive branch.

When you think about it, the only way to get somebody is to stick-check because there's no checking in women's hockey. She was just looking to call everything.