bone to pick
Example Sentences
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For Phillips though, there is a little bone to pick.
From BBC • Jan. 12, 2026
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 • Nov. 14, 2025
Dahlia Lithwick has a bone to pick with Ted Lasso’s critics.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2023
But, for this reason alone, I have a bone to pick with garlic salt.
From Salon • Mar. 4, 2023
She didn’t finish her stew, but she did fish out a tiny bone to pick her small white teeth with.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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