come to blows

If you can talk to her without coming to blows, do so.

The young men were on the point of coming to blows.

For a moment I was certain they were going to come to blows.

"There were only about four times when people almost came to blows."

If this came to blows, they would stand or fall together.

For a moment it seemed they might come to blows.

But we did not come to blows over these differences.

It's about to come to blows again, so I step in between them.

However, the trip does not work out too well and the two men come to blows.

The two sides have even come to blows outside court.

Once or twice he had seen them come to blows.

They had almost come to blows over who was to carry which.

He says they would have come to blows if friends had not stepped in.

"Get the hell out of here before we really do come to blows."

While neither side actually turned on each other or came to blows there was a lot of problems for the team.

In fact, he was actually hoping the situation would come to blows.

In a moment the former friends would surely come to blows.

Wife and girlfriend almost came to blows some weeks ago.

Or the people just never liked each other and it comes to blows over the kids.

A third man got up and separated the two men who had almost come to blows.

They seemed close to coming to blows, so he interrupted.

We almost came to blows last month because you wanted to buy."

Once or twice the friends almost came to blows over religion.

Perhaps "met" was the wrong word; they very nearly came to blows.

At some point, the joking turned serious, and nearly came to blows.