apple of discord
Example Sentences
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The apple of discord is Helen’s house, now rented, set on an acre abutting a state nature reserve.
From Washington Post • Nov. 7, 2022
But Poindexter had thrown a feather-stuffed apple of discord into the Scalia story.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 17, 2016
Into German politics last week a big red apple of discord was flung by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Wall Street Journal published it, thereby casting a golden apple of discord throughout the financial community.
From Time Magazine Archive
At this time, however, while Edgar Berrington stood watching them, these two men seemed to have found an apple of discord of unusual size—to judge from the energetic display of feeling which it occasioned.
From Under the Waves Diving in Deep Waters by Pearson, Francis B.
