bone to pick
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During his late-night appearance, Schreiber made it quite clear he has a bone to pick with increasingly reductive language, lamenting the use of emojis to communicate thoughts.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 29, 2026
Brian Lee has a big, juicy bone to pick with you.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 27, 2026
But they’ve got another bone to pick with Holden Caulfield: He is being used as a prop by performative men to impress those around him.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2026
Dahlia Lithwick has a bone to pick with Ted Lasso’s critics.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2023
She didn’t finish her stew, but she did fish out a tiny bone to pick her small white teeth with.
From "Strange the Dreamer" by Laini Taylor
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