bone of contention
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The inheritance their Grandfather had left to the sisters was a bone of contention for them.
Другие идиомы:
- know (something) in one's bones
- make no bones about (something)
- chilled to the bone
- to the bone
- down to the bone
- as dry as a bone
- close to the bone
- feel (something) in one's bones
- skin and bones
- bare bones (of something)
- able to breathe easily/freely again
- as broad as a barn door
- as soft as a baby's bottom
- at each other's throats
- at the top of one's lungs