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settle a score
Idioms and Phrases
Also, settle or wipe out an old score or scores . Get even, avenge a grievance or an injury. For example, Wendy settled an old score with Bill when she made him wait for half an hour in the rain . These expressions, dating from the mid-1800s to early 1900s, all use score in the sense of 鈥渁n account鈥 or 鈥渂ill.鈥 Also see pay off , def. 3.Example Sentences
鈥淚 think I have to settle a score with this guy,鈥 she concluded.
And now he might want to settle a score with his rival.
It would also show Mr. Trump, in his own voice, invoking a sensitive government document to settle a score.
The motives can be to grab land, to ostracize a woman to settle a score, or to justify violence.
Liverpool have been looking to settle a score with Real since the 2018 Champions League final defeat in Kyiv - Salah's injury after a tangle with Sergio Ramos a lingering source of bitterness - but this is a hurdle they struggle to overcome, having lost to the Spaniards in the quarter-final in 2021 and in last season's final.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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