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What does beat one's swords into ploughshares mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To refrain from doing aggressive activities (ie: war, terrorism, etc.) and to do peaceful ones.
  2. (literally) To create a peaceful civilian instrument from military technologies.
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