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bone to pick

Having a “bone to pick with someone” means having a grievance that needs to be talked out: “I have a bone to pick with you, Wallace; I heard how you criticized me at the meeting last night.”

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United ended up with a draw and a bone to pick with the referee in forward Taxi Fountas’s first start of the season.

Police said one of its "brave" officers - who had a bone to pick - found the discovery was of a more humerus nature.

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But, for this reason alone, I have a bone to pick with garlic salt.

Mr. Manchin’s major bone to pick with the administration is with the electric vehicle tax credits, which provide up to $7,500 for each new vehicle.

Democrats on Capitol Hill have a bone to pick with school lunches, but it’s not the mediocre entrees or rising food costs: it’s the cow’s milk.

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