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take issue with
Disagree with, as in I take issue with those figures; they don't include last month's sales. This idiom comes from legal terminology, where it was originally put as to join issue, meaning “take the opposite side of a case.” [Late 1600s]
Example Sentences
Some will take issue with it as it is inspired by the autobiography of the same name from trans writer, journalist and trans rights campaigner Paris Lees.
As for Harper’s “losers” comment about people who take issue with the Dodgers’ way of doing business?
That's below the three-quarters of voters overall who take issue with the leaks, but it still marks a rare break with Trumpism for GOP voters.
Even if you take issue with how the site is currently framing the conflict, that doesn’t justify Heritage’s plan.
She also adapted a playful tone to take issue with another Trump assertion.
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