I. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ VERB
pick
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But it is hard to pick a quarrel with pasta.
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He started to pick the odd quarrel and cancel dates.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
pick a quarrel/fight (with sb)
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Anthony Ryan was known in his family as able to pick a fight with his own fingernails.
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Barton Lynch's manager had once picked a fight with him.
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But it is hard to pick a quarrel with pasta.
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From a lack of communication, parents are more likely to misunderstand, blame, or pick fights with one another.
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Had never picked a fight in his life.
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His favorite thing is to pick fights with me and then leave brown lunch bags on our doorstep.
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The first thing Vicious does is start picking fights with these guys who are supposed to protect him.
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We adults do the same: we come home from work and start complaining or picking a fight.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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a bitter family quarrel
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I was tired of these stupid quarrels with my parents.
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They had some sort of quarrel years ago, and they haven't spoken to each other since.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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It was rehearsed again in the quarrel between the sunny Emerson and the somber Herman Melville.
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Labor unions continue to wage these dismal quarrels against management with almost uniformly disastrous results for the workers and their communities.
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Nor was he willing to let bygones be bygones once a quarrel had finally come to an end.
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Then he worked as garden boy at Ballykilcavan, but in the winter of 1860-1 he left abruptly after a quarrel .
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Two or three weeks ago, a crossbow quarrel narrowly missed my face as we crossed the Lawnmarket.
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We don't want to have a quarrel , do we?
II. verb
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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I could hear them quarreling next door.
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She left home after quarrelling with her parents.
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The two brothers had quarreled over ownership of the farm.
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Whenever my sisters meet they always end up quarrelling.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Gettier here is not quarrelling with any of the three clauses.
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I can not face a quarrel and I can see nothing to quarrel about.
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I mean you nothing but good, why should we quarrel ?
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If I hadn't been weak and without hope I should have quarrelled with almost everything Syl said.
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Perhaps men were killed; perhaps animals were stolen - who knows now why men quarrelled a century ago?
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She didn't want to quarrel with Maria, today of all days, when they had so little time left together.
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This can lead to misunderstanding, mutual frustration, anger, quarrelling and perhaps aggression.
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Yet quarrel they did after George's retirement.