to have a bone to pick with sb

  • 21i've got a bone to pick with you —    If somebody says this, they mean that they have some complaint to make against the person they are addressing.   (Dorking School Dictionary) …

    English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • 22I've got a bone to pick with you —   If somebody says this, they mean that they have some complaint to make against the person they are addressing …

    Dictionary of English idioms

  • 23Bone to Pick — Infobox Album Name = Bone to Pick Type = studio Artist = The Gone Jackals Released = 1995 Recorded = Genre = Rock Length = 43:58 Label = Blue/Black Records Producer = Keith Karloff Reviews = Last album = Out and About with the Gone Jackals (1990) …

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  • 24bone — ► NOUN 1) any of the pieces of hard, whitish tissue making up the skeleton in vertebrates. 2) the hard material of which bones consist. 3) a thing resembling a bone, such as a strip of stiffening for an undergarment. ► VERB 1) remove the bones… …

    English terms dictionary

  • 25pick — 1 /pIk/ verb (T) 1 CHOOSE STH to choose someone or something good or suitable from a group or range of people or things: Students have to pick three courses from a list of 15. | Let me pick a few examples at random. | pick your words (=be careful …

    Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • 26bone — /bohn/, n., v., boned, boning, adv. n. 1. Anat., Zool. a. one of the structures composing the skeleton of a vertebrate. b. the hard connective tissue forming the substance of the skeleton of most vertebrates, composed of a collagen rich organic… …

    Universalium

  • 27pick — pick1 W1S1 [pık] v [T] ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(choose something)¦ 2¦(flowers/fruit etc)¦ 3¦(remove something)¦ 4 pick your way through/across/among etc something 5 pick your nose 6 pick your teeth 7 pick somebody s brains 8 pick a quarrel/fight (with… …

    Dictionary of contemporary English

  • 28bone — bone1 [ boun ] noun *** 1. ) count one of the hard parts that form a frame inside the body of a human or animal. This frame is called a skeleton: She fell and broke a bone in her foot. Cook the fish, then carefully remove the bones. He was thin,… …

    Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • 29bone — I UK [bəʊn] / US [boʊn] noun Word forms bone : singular bone plural bones *** 1) [countable] one of the hard parts that form a frame inside the body of a human or animal. This frame is called a skeleton She fell and broke a bone in her foot. Cook …

    English dictionary

  • 30bone — /boʊn / (say bohn) noun 1. Zoology, Anatomy a. any of the separate pieces of which the skeleton of a vertebrate is composed. b. the hard tissue which composes the skeleton. 2. a bone or piece of a bone with the meat adhering to it, as an article… …