/ · 1894 Brewer’s · S · Settie your Hash (To)
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“To cook his goose;” or “make mince-meat of him.” Our slang is full of similar phrases.
“About earls as goes mad in their castles,
And females what settles their hash.”
Sims: Dagonet Ballads (Polly).
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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.