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them's fighting words
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see fighting words .Example Sentences
“But when they say San Francisco liberal, as if to make it sound like it’s something negative, them’s fighting words. Don’t attack my city. Don’t attack my city.”
Then he hollered, “Them’s fighting words, and I declare war!”
Standing tall, arms spread, changing colors—them's fighting words for an octopus.
Them’s fighting words to air power advocates like David Deptula, a retired Air Force lieutenant general who ran the successful air campaign over Afghanistan in the opening months of the U.S. campaign there.
Them’s fighting words from the distant relative of Aaron Burr, the former vice president of the United States famed for killing founding father Alexander Hamilton in an 1804 duel.
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