phrase

• Have reason to disagree or be annoyed with someone.

  More example sentences

  • ‘she has a bone to pick with the council’
  • ‘He could be gruff and if he had a bone to pick with you, he picked it.’
  • ‘Someone could have a bone to pick with you soon, and they'll lay it on thick as sauce.’
  • ‘Perhaps I have always had a bone to pick with her because I believe that she stole my thunder.’
  • ‘I remembered something, ‘Drew, I have a bone to pick with you.’’
  • ‘Just make the horse move so much or else somebody is gonna have a bone to pick with you,’ I said.’
  • ‘‘I have a bone to pick with you,’ I suddenly remembered, hitting him in the chest lightly, and totally ignoring his request.’
  • ‘‘You know, I actually have a bone to pick with you about that,’ she said between bites.’
  • ‘I don't have a bone to pick with them and vice versa.’
  • ‘What I'm getting at is that you seem have a bone to pick with me of late, and we should thrash it out before it becomes a problem.’
  • ‘Don Pedro tells Benedick that Beatrice has a bone to pick with him.’
  • ‘Father came into the kitchen, looking like he had a bone to pick with me, then skidded to a halt.’
  • ‘I had a bone to pick with him during his comments, because he seemed to imply that a golf course was something great for the environment.’
  • ‘Looking at his father, Daniel recalled that he had a bone to pick with him.’
  • ‘It's not like she's had a bone to pick with her lately.’
  • ‘And he said he's all ready for the interview, and I said to him, I have a bone to pick with you first.’
  • ‘She didn't even have anything against those other guys, but she did have a bone to pick with Heero Yuy.’
  • ‘I don't have any complaints on the movie, but I do have a bone to pick with the film studio.’
  • ‘The other passenger in the car, Lenny, has a bone to pick with Vince, because the latter got his daughter pregnant years before.’