Come-to-blows Definition

verb

(idiomatic) To fight; to initiate physical conflict, especially subsequent to escalating tension or antagonism.

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Come-to-blows Sentence Examples

  • We won't come to blows.

  • Oh, we disagree now and then, but we never come to blows.

  • Although related to each other, Louis and Frederick had come to blows before this event; they represented two rival houses, those of Wittelsbach and Habsburg, and the election only served to feed the flame of their antagonism.

  • But it was impossible that the rival Venetian and Genoese merchants, dwelling at close quarters in the Levant cities, should not come to blows.

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