have it out with sb
to talk to someone about something they have done that makes you angry, in order to try to solve the problem:
She'd been late for work every morning and I thought I'd better have it out with her.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Dealing with things or people
- attend to sb/sth
- beard the lion (in his/her den) idiom
- come up against sth
- come/get to grips with sth idiom
- confront
- cut
- firefighting
- get sth in
- inherit
- jump-start
- negotiate
- process
- reckon
- reckon with sb/sth
- see about sth
- see to sth/sb
- set about sth
- sort
- turn
- weather
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