pick a quarrel
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Even if she gets defensive or wants to pick a quarrel with you, you don’t have to engage: “I don’t want to fight about this with you, so let’s drop the subject.”
From Slate • Apr. 8, 2021
She is a communist and atheist and one day goes to confession, purely and simply to pick a quarrel with the priest – and this is Morin, an excellent performance from Jean-Paul Belmondo.
From The Guardian • Jan. 28, 2017
Easy enough to pick a quarrel with a show like Heroes of Rock 'n' Roll: Where are Sam Cooke and the Drifters?
From Time Magazine Archive
He warned Japan that, while Britain had no desire to pick a quarrel, she would not let her interests in the Far East be set aside.
From Time Magazine Archive
As for Monsieur Plays, who was compelled to go and pick a quarrel with a fellow creature—he would have preferred, at that moment, to be at Algiers, or on the railroad.
From San-Cravate; or, The Messengers; Little Streams by Kock, Charles Paul de
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