pick a bone
Example Sentences
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If you feel a need to blame anyone, it’s most constructive to pick a bone with yourself.
From Slate • Aug. 8, 2019
“It would have been just as well to let a sleeping dog lie undisturbed,” advised Albert Goldberg, who never hesitated to pick a bone with L.A.’s most famous arts luminary of the time.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 19, 2016
One wavelet of Internet tributes paid to Mr. Bowie after his death on Sunday recalled a trip he took to a hotel room, in 1983, to pick a bone with MTV.
From New York Times • Jan. 13, 2016
Whether to beg a boon or pick a bone, the man of action has always known where to go and whom to complain to.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is no respecter of persons, and would as lief pick a bone in a royal vault as in POTTER'S Field.
From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 16, July 16, 1870 by Various
