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come to blows
Idioms and Phrases
Begin to fight. For example, It hardly seems worth coming to blows over a dollar! Thomas Hobbes had it in Leviathan (1651): “Their controversie must either come to blowes, or be undecided.†This term is also put as fall to blows , especially in Britain. [Late 1500s]Example Sentences
And even if they don't come to blows, the mere fact of racing can bring competitors into play - as happened to McLaren at the Italian Grand Prix last year.
It’s been nearly seven years since audiences saw Wilson Fisk and Matt Murdock come to blows for the last time in Netflix’s “Daredevil.â€
“We would sometimes come to blows,†Zack said.
“At that point in time,†Perry said, “I was out of my mind. I would do anything to win. There would be fights all of the time. We would come to blows.â€
In 2022, Liam told Logan Paul's podcast that things had almost come to blows.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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