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score to settle

noun as in ax to grind

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“We have a little score to settle there,” Schmetzer said of the Vancouver match.

Arsenal also have a score to settle with Liverpool after losing 2-0 at home in the recent FA Cup third-round tie, when they had so many chances to score before almost inevitably falling victim to two late sucker-punches.

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“People have a score to settle with ‘old politics,’” said Rem Korteweg, senior research fellow at the Clingendael think tank in The Hague.

Merced’s casting follows this week’s announcements that “Dopesick” actor Kaitlyn Dever has joined “The Last of Us” to play Abby, a deadly soldier with a score to settle, and that “Beef” actor Young Mazino will be portraying Jesse, a selfless pillar of his community.

They also played like they had a score to settle with Lens, a team they had not beaten in three previous Champions League games including the reverse fixture in Group B, which the French side won 2-1.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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