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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—H

Helve

To throw the helve after the hatchet. To be reckless, to throw away what remains because your losses have been so great. The allusion is to the fable of the wood-cutter who lost the head of his axe in a river and threw the handle in after it.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894

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