argy-bargy

argy-bargy

slang Loud arguing or discussion. Primarily heard in UK. Our neighbors are having marital problems, so we're subjected to their argy-bargy every night.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.
See also:
  • argy
  • bargy
  • loud enough to wake the dead
  • to wake the dead, loud enough
  • a member for Barkshire
  • for crying out loud
  • For crying out loud!
  • assault the ear
  • out loud
  • bun
References in periodicals archive
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Not to mention the argy-bargy there would have been from Danny Snr.
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"As if there's no enough argy-bargy in your house as it is."
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Take Cristiano Ronaldo's amateur hour argy-bargy with Newcastle United defender Steven Taylor.
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A THE English language is full of rhyming or repetitive phrases - such as hoity-toity, argy-bargy, tittle-tattle or pitter-patter - known as reduplicative compounds.
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But while the exchange of angry words and one and two-fingered salutes is unpleasant enough, the attack on a 66-year-old man in an argy-bargy over parking space at Huddersfield Royal Infirmary is reprehensible.
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Dore, still a rookie in Premier League racing having only his fourth match for Newcastle, seemingly upset Dicken in heat two by charging past him to take second place and there was some argy-bargy in the pits afterwards.
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