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come to blows
Idioms and Phrases
Begin to fight. For example, It hardly seems worth coming to blows over a dollar! Thomas Hobbes had it in Leviathan (1651): “Their controversie must either come to blowes, or be undecided.” This term is also put as fall to blows , especially in Britain. [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
“We would sometimes come to blows,” Zack said.
“At that point in time,” Perry said, “I was out of my mind. I would do anything to win. There would be fights all of the time. We would come to blows.”
In 2022, Liam told Logan Paul's podcast that things had almost come to blows.
The nation’s southwestern islands, near China’s eastern coast, could be among the first hit if the U.S. and China come to blows over Taiwan.
The Mexican gang has gained a foothold in Richmond, according to the attorney general, and could come to blows with international gang La Mara Salvatrucha, commonly known as MS-13, when the Sinaloa Cartel tries to set up shop in the Washington area.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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