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start something
Idioms and Phrases
Cause trouble, especially a quarrel or fight, as in Stop bringing that up—do you want to start something ? [ Colloquial ; early 1900s]Example Sentences
“Your note was so sweet, honey, but I want you to be sure of your feelings, or I wouldn’t want to start something we couldn’t finish. You are a very lovely and desirable woman, honey, and I want you very much.”
"It is my first tattoo, I'm just getting a wee clover to start. Something small."
He'll start something and then he'll be like, "Oh, I wish you had been a part of it."
With the cancer diagnosis giving Jane a new "focus", she found a group of similar families nearby - many old school friends of Ellie's - who were looking to start something called a housing cooperative.
There’s definitely a sense that she’s about to start something.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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