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bone to pick

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  1. 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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Last year, Ripple Chief Executive Brad Garlinghouse had a bone to pick with banks, saying they had shut him and his industry out.

From The Wall Street Journal

Man’s best friend appears to have a bone to pick with U.S.

From Los Angeles Times

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.

From Salon

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

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Washington Post

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