society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > quarrel [verb (intransitive)] > find occasion for quarrelling > give provocation (2)
to trail one's coat, to seek to pick a quarrel; to be provocative in one's conduct. Cf. to drag his coat-tails, so that some one may tread on them at…
In various other special applications, euphemistic, colloquial, dialectal, or vulgar. Unpleasant relations with the authorities, esp. such as…