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have a bone to pick with someone

idiom/hæv ə boʊn tu pɪk wɪð ˈsʌmwʌn/

to have a complaint or disagreement to settle with someone

I have a bone to pick with you—you borrowed my book and never returned it!

word origin — From the 1500s — two dogs given one bone would fight, picking it angrily; an image of unresolved conflict.