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
The Russian bear is luxuriously licking Napoleon's boots, and remarks, "This licking is giving me a mortal inclination to pick a bone."
From The History of the Nineteenth Century in Caricature by Cooper, Frederic Taber
