hash over= negative or positive?

[ostap77]

"This issue has been hashed over many times but we still have no solution."

Does it mean that the subject was very important and was difficult to agree on? Or is it because they were talking in a meaningless way?

 

[Munch]

"This issue has been hashed over many times but we still have no solution."

Does it mean that the subject was very important and was difficult to agree on? Or is it because they were talking in a meaningless way?

It is not necessarily negative, it just means they have carefully gone over the same points repeatedly.

 

[Barb_D]

It doesn't even mean the issue was important. You can hash over a celebrity break up as well.

 

[vil]

hash over = hash out = discuss = thoroughly discuss the issue of [the proposal]; careful give consideration to a problem [proposal]; thrash the matter out of

Hasn't the committee finished hashing over the question yet?

We must hash out the question of Mr. Brown's appointment, which many of the directors are opposing…..

We hashed the plan over.

They hashed the question over interminably

Let's hash the main ideas over!

hash over = recapitulate, summarize briefly