tangle with sb
— phrasal verb with tangle uk/ˈtæŋ.ɡəl/us/ˈtæŋ.ɡəl/verb [ I or T ] informal
to become involved with someone, usually by arguing or fighting with them:
He was a self-opinionated, overbearing tyrant, and he was the last man she should want to tangle with.
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Fighting
- a fight to the finish idiom
- action stations
- bloodless
- bloodletting
- brawl
- counterinsurgency
- disturbance
- dust-up
- engagement
- fighting
- fistfight
- fray
- gunfight
- he who fights and runs away, lives to fight another day idiom
- hotspot
- last
- mano a mano
- pick
- shoot
- slug
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