Talk:have a bone to pick
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Backinstadiums in topic etymology
Possible french translation[edit]
The website http://xref.w3dictionary.org/index.php?fl=en&id=21390 says the french translation of "to have a bone to pick" is “ont un os à prendre”. I ask a frenchman, please verify. I may have a very literal translation of an idiom. Khonkhortisan (talk) 06:36, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
- The phrase seems to be very uncommon. I don't know it, and it's very difficult to find examples of use (an example : http://www.maisondujazz.be/fr/galerie/Fraize/Jampur.html). Anyway, it's not the same sense, not a translation of the English phrase as defined here. I found the same sense, but very probably coming from an automatic translation or something of the kind. Lmaltier (talk) 06:48, 28 February 2012 (UTC)
etymology[edit]
It alludes both to a dog worrying a bone and to two dogs fighting over a single bone, dates from the early sixteenth century. “I will add this, which may be a bone for you to pick on,” wrote James Calfhill (1565)—that is, an issue to worry to death. --Backinstadiums (talk) 10:56, 12 April 2021 (UTC)