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
The Wall Street Journal published it, thereby casting a golden apple of discord throughout the financial community.
From Time Magazine Archive
Into German politics last week a big red apple of discord was flung by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald.
From Time Magazine Archive
"Or the schoolmaster," said that provoking little personage, the first speaker, whose sole aim was to throw the apple of discord amongst his fellows.
From Traditions of Lancashire, Volume 2 by John Roby
