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Have a Bone to Pick with You to have an argument or unpleasant matter to settle with someone

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My new boss said she had a bone to pick with me and called me into her office. This saying goes back to the early 16th century, and is based on the image of people arguing over fine points like dogs picking over bones to get every last bit of meat. Others think it may have originated in the 19th century from the idea that two people can argue the way two dogs can fight over a bone. In either case, if someone has "a bone to pick" with you. it means he or she has a complaint about something you said or did.

Idiom	Have a Bone to Pick with You
Example	My new boss said she had a bone to pick with me and called me into her office.
Meaning	to have an argument or unpleasant matter to settle with someone
Origin	This saying goes back to the early 16th century, and is based on the image of people arguing over fine points like dogs picking over bones to get every last bit of meat. Others think it may have originated in the 19th century from the idea that two people can argue the way two dogs can fight over a bone. In either case, if someone has "a bone to pick" with you. it means he or she has a complaint about something you said or did.

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