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A bone of contention

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a subject of contention or dispute.

See also: Bone



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Now, my dear souls, don't let us quarrel and make Rose a bone of contention though, upon my word, she is almost a bone, poor little lass
Have it your own way then; for I would not have this matter become a bone of contention between us.
Then it grew to be a bone of contention between the British and the French, being occupied now by the one and now by the other, emerging from each occupation with some fresh scar of battling nations branded on it.
 
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