bone to pick
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.37 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- ""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?""
- "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.""