| 词汇 | bone-of-contention |
| 释义 | a bone of contentionidiom something that two or more people argue about strongly over a long period of time争辩的起因;争议点 Arguing & disagreeing agent provocateur alienate alienated argue with someone argumentatively bone conflict flame hammer lock hornsidiom non-circular non-consensual pick piggy in the middle provocateur quarrel quibble says who?idiom the fur fliesidiom throw bone of contention | American Dictionarybone of contentionidiom something that two people or groups cannot agree about: Money is a common bone of contention in many marriages. Examples of a bone of contentiona bone of contention The boneofcontention is the section on registration of political parties. The wording of resolution no. 11 was very tentative, with the boneofcontention being the site of the collection station. One important boneofcontention is the definition of the relevant set of studies. The boneofcontention was neither the music, nor the version chosen, nor even the inadequacy of several singers. The refinery also was a boneofcontention. Again this had been a persistent boneofcontention between the board of education and its critics throughout the interwar period. In addition, another boneofcontention soon arose thereafter. By the late 1930s, stool debts were receding as a boneofcontention, but the struggles continued. I suspect that this critical issue will prove to be a major boneofcontention and it requires some attention. The main boneofcontention is this—because everything can be brought down to practicalities in the end. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The boneofcontention is one which he declared did not exist—the labelling according to fibre content of cloths containing wool. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 I appreciate that one does not always want taxis to pass one by, and that is another boneofcontention. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 The main boneofcontention, however, is the issue of which types of incident should be covered. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English We know that it had been a boneofcontention for years. From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English The boneofcontention is which route should be taken in relation to the transfer of certain powers and responsibilities. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 See all examples of a bone of contention These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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