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Disagree with, as in I take issue with those figures; they don't include last month's sales . This idiom comes from legal terminology, where it was originally put as to join issue , meaning “take the opposite side of a case.” [Late 1600s]

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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