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单词 fightin
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fightin

fighting words

Speech meant to provoke a fight or confrontation with someone. The senatorial candidate issued strong fighting words to her opponent today, challenging her to an open debate on the matter of tax increases.See also: fight, word

them's fighting words

cliché What was said warrants a fight or confrontation. "Fighting" is often rendered as "fightin'" for colloquial or ironic effect. A: "You're dad was a sissy!" B: "Them's fightin' words, pal—I'm gonna knock your block off!" But to suggest that our nation should bend to the will of another, well, them's fighting words around these parts.See also: fight, word

fighting words

A statement bound to start a quarrel or fight. It is often expressed as them's fighting words, as in You say your father's smarter than mine? Them's fighting words. The ungrammatical use of them's for "those are" emphasizes the folksy tone of this colloquialism, first recorded in Ring Lardner's Gullible's Travels (1917). See also: fight, word
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  • what's your pleasure?
  • what's your poison
  • what's your poison?
  • what's your problem
  • what's your problem?
  • what's yours
  • what's yours?
  • what's yours is mine, and what's mine is mine
  • what's your take on that
  • whatt
  • what the
  • what the?
  • what the actual
  • what the actual fuck
  • what the ass
  • what the bible says about
  • what the blazes
  • what the blazes?
  • what the (blue) blazes
  • what the blue blazes
  • what the blue blazes?
  • what the buck
  • what-the-butler-saw machine
  • what the butt?
  • what the crap?

 

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