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take issue with
Idioms and Phrases
Disagree with, as in I take issue with those figures; they don't include last month's sales . This idiom comes from legal terminology, where it was originally put as to join issue , meaning âtake the opposite side of a case.â [Late 1600s]Example Sentences
As for Harperâs âlosersâ comment about people who take issue with the Dodgersâ way of doing business?
That's below the three-quarters of voters overall who take issue with the leaks, but it still marks a rare break with Trumpism for GOP voters.
Even if you take issue with how the site is currently framing the conflict, that doesnât justify Heritageâs plan.
She also adapted a playful tone to take issue with another Trump assertion.
âI take issue with the word âillegalâ because it assumes that this is a crime âthis is a civil administrative process,â said Davenport.
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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 HeritageŸ Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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