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
Into German politics last week a big red apple of discord was flung by Minister of Labor Adam Stegerwald.
From Time Magazine Archive
The Wall Street Journal published it, thereby casting a golden apple of discord throughout the financial community.
From Time Magazine Archive
It seemed for a time likely to prove the apple of discord, judging from the hungry glances cast at it by a long, lank, thinly-clad old man across the car.
From The American Gentleman's Guide to Politeness and Fashion or, Familiar Letters to his Nephews by Lunettes, Henry
