Dictionary

bone to pick en · NOUN

Meanings

1. (idiomatic, informal, usually, with with) A disagreeable matter to settle with somebody.
   • "I say, Winthrop," he cried, "I've got a bone to pick with you. You've been hitting me pretty hard in that rag of yours. Do you know what a public man down in the Gulf States does with an editor who attacks him?" 1903, Joseph A. Altsheler, chapter 1, in Before the Dawn:
   • There are a few plaintiff-friendly jurisdictions in lesser populated areas, but big-city courts had few suits that did not involve medical error and "a legitimate bone to pick." 2006 October, Terry Carter, “Tort Reform Texas Style”, in ABA Journal, volume 92, number 10, pages 30–36:

Forms

Deriveds

have a bone to pick

Synonyms

crow to pull · crow to pluck · crow to pick

Translations (9)

sco craw tae pluck (disagreeable matter to settle with somebody) · ro problemă de lămurit (disagreeable matter to settle with somebody) · ro nemulțumire (disagreeable matter to settle with somebody) · cmn 不滿 /不满 (disagreeable matter to settle with somebody) · ro răfuială (disagreeable matter to settle with somebody) · pl kosa (disagreeable matter to settle with somebody) · fi kana kynittävänä (disagreeable matter to settle with somebody) · ro chestiune de reproșat (disagreeable matter to settle with somebody) · cmn 意見 /意见 (disagreeable matter to settle with somebody)