Bone Of Contention Definition

noun
A matter for argument; subject about which there is disagreement.
Webster's New World

(idiomatic) Something that continues to be disputed; something on which no agreement can be reached.

It is still a bone of contention whether to go ahead with the original plan in light of the new evidence.
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Synonyms:
  • cross-interrogatory

Other Word Forms of Bone Of Contention

Noun

Singular:
bone of contention
Plural:
bones-of-contention

Origin of Bone Of Contention

  • A reference to two dogs fighting over the same bone.

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Bone Of Contention Sentence Examples

  • Money can become another bone of contention in this pairing.

  • Throughout the 17th century Riga was a bone of contention between Sweden, Poland and Russia.

  • From early in the 18th century it was a bone of contention between the Ottoman Turks and the Russians, the latter capturing it five times between 1711 and 1812.

  • The attrition of the Quartermaine clan in Port Charles is a bone of contention with many fans.

  • Silesia, now split up into seventeen principalities, was the bone of contention between them; and when Casimir suddenly invaded that country, took Wschowa, and made Prince Charles of Bohemia a prisoner, war between the two kingdoms actually broke out and Casimir was besieged in Cracow by the Czechs.

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