Argument Phrases

Phrases

• A bone to pick
• A bull and cow (Cockney rhyming slang for row or argument)
• Anecdotal evidence
• As camp as a row of tents
• Body of evidence
• Brought to blows
• Business need
• Calm down, calm down (A catchphrase from Harry Enfield In The Scousers)
• Desolation Row (Bob Dylan song)
• Don't get me started
• Don't use that tone with me
• Dust up
• Exchange of views
• Face off
• Fly in the face of the evidence
• Fuel the controversy
• Get your ducks in a row
• Hard evidence
• Hard row to hoe
• Have words with
• He said, she said
• King's evidence
• Last word
• Let not the sun go down on your wrath
• Lover's tiff
• Make a scene (causing a disturbance)
• Murderers' Row (A baseball expression denoting a group of talented individuals or valuable assets)
• Never go to bed on an argument
• No hard feelings (An injunction to forgive and forget following a dispute)
• On death row
• On skid row
• On the one hand
• On the other hand
• Pros and cons
• Row up Salt River
• Row, row, row your boat
• Score to settle
• Shoot down in flames (destroy an argument or theory)
• Short fuse
• Shout the odds
• Storm of controversy
• The body of evidence
• Tough row to hoe
• Trouble in Paradise
• War of words
• Watch the sparks fly
• What are you driving at?
• With silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in a row (line from nursery rhyme)
• Without a leg to stand on