set-to
- altercation n.
- argument n.
- bout n.
- brush n.
- clash n.
- conflict n.
- conflict n.
- confrontation n.
- contention n.
- contest n.
- difference n.
- encounter n.
- fight n.
- fighting n.
- fracas n.
- fray n.
- friction n.
- melee n.
- misunderstanding n.
- polemic n.
- quarrel n.
- row n.
- run-in n.
- scrap n.
- scuffle n.
- brouhaha n.
- squabble n.
- struggle n.
- tilt n.
- tourney n.
- wrangle n.
- argue v.
- attack v.
- buckle down v.
- contend v.
- contest v.
- debate v.
- disagree v.
- embark on v.
- enter v.
- pettifog v.
- pitch in v.
- quarrel v.
- quibble v.
- take up v.
- wade v.
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Itching for a robust little set-to, they rode around waving the California Republic’s Bear Flag — which by then was a states’ rights symbol.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 12, 2024
The paradox of this ferocious set-to was that it came almost immediately after MPs had spent slightly under three hours lavishing praise on Bercow.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 31, 2019
What was most striking about this set-to was how much Warren seemed to be enjoying it.
From The New Yorker ● May 17, 2016
I called Mr. Smith about our set-to in 2010.
From New York Times ● Aug. 24, 2014
I fished down the creek for an hour and then returned and tried the old fellow again, but he had not yet forgotten his recent set-to with me, and refused to come out.
From Cruisings in the Cascades A Narrative of Travel, Exploration, Amateur Photography, Hunting, and Fishing by George O. Shields
It’s qualitatively different from the kind of tiredness that comes from an afternoon of set-tos and whining when you and your kid are stuck in a room together.
From Slate ● Feb. 22, 2019
During the day he cares for the inmates, consoling them, moderating their set-tos and tenderly putting them, when the time comes, to sleep.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 20, 2018
But the formal strictures of such set-tos mask the fact that debate, in its loosest form, is something most people engage in almost daily.
From BBC ● Apr. 14, 2010
Despite the sister's gabby gossiping, the kids' shenanigans, the marital jawings and set-tos, the dress for the party and the dressing for the party, there are bogeys at the stairhead and phantoms outside the window.
From Time Magazine Archive
There will be some grand set-tos between mother and Robert.
From A Reconstructed Marriage by Amelia Edith Huddleston Barr
