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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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On the chance that he does, I have a bone to pick with him – less cosmic, but something that speaks volumes about his probity and fitness for office.

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A critic has the unfortunate task of sniffing for bones to pick.

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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.

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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.

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