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have a bone to pick (with someone)

to have a disagreement to discuss with someone; to have something to argue about with someone. Hey, Bill. I've got a bone to pick with you. Where is the money you owe me? I had a bone to pick with her, but she was so sweet that I forgot about it.

have a bone to pick, to

To have a point to argue, an unpleasant issue to discuss, or a complaint. This term, which alludes both to a dog worrying a bone and to two dogs fighting over a single bone, dates from the early sixteenth century. “I will add this, which may be a bone for you to pick on,” wrote James Calfhill (Answer to Martiall, 1565)—that is, an issue to worry to death. “There is a bone for the gastronomers to pick,” Sir Walter Scott was quoted as saying about 1830, denoting something for more than one person to argue about.

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释义	have a bone to pick, to have a bone to pick (with someone) to have a disagreement to discuss with someone; to have something to argue about with someone. Hey, Bill. I've got a bone to pick with you. Where is the money you owe me? I had a bone to pick with her, but she was so sweet that I forgot about it. See also: bone, have, pick McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. have a bone to pick, to To have a point to argue, an unpleasant issue to discuss, or a complaint. This term, which alludes both to a dog worrying a bone and to two dogs fighting over a single bone, dates from the early sixteenth century. “I will add this, which may be a bone for you to pick on,” wrote James Calfhill (Answer to Martiall, 1565)—that is, an issue to worry to death. “There is a bone for the gastronomers to pick,” Sir Walter Scott was quoted as saying about 1830, denoting something for more than one person to argue about. See also: bone, have The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer See also: accompany (one) on a/(one's) journey accompany on a journey be/have done with somebody/something a stranger to (someone or something) be out of (one's) league be out of somebody's league bargain bargain for (someone or something) with (someone) brief (someone) about (someone or something) brief about
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