fighting words
Example Sentences
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I’ve even added some of Huntr/x’s songs to my resistance playlist titled, “Them’s Fighting Words.”
From Salon
These are fighting words, and we can safely assume that Jackson does not use them lightly.
From Slate
Employers resented Roosevelt’s pro-labor stance, as well as his fighting words attacking “economic royalists.”
From Slate
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has had some fighting words for Google, too.
From Seattle Times
In corporate-speak, those are fighting words about as barbed as they come: They insinuated that Altman had been lying.
From Los Angeles Times
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
