pick a quarrel
pick a fight

And it was your idea to pick a quarrel with me.

Nor had he ever been known to pick a quarrel.

But it is hard to pick a quarrel with pasta.

What possessed the man to pick a quarrel - here and now?

He was pretty obvious about picking a quarrel with me so I'd drive off alone.

They were quite ready to pick a quarrel with unicorns!

He picked a quarrel and left her without more ado.

Nobody went out to pick a quarrel when you gave no offense and was even useful.

"Regis, I am not trying to pick a quarrel with you."

The nerve of him to try to pick a quarrel that way."

But I have those about me who are pretty swordsmen and know how to pick a quarrel.

"We'll simply pick a quarrel with him and refuse to continue in his company.

"The beetles seem to think the spiders want to pick a quarrel."

But would he have gone out of his way to pick a quarrel with his neighbor?

"And see that you don't pick a quarrel with him," he added.

"Merely her damnable desire to pick a quarrel with me!"

In spite of his hot temper, he was not the man to pick a quarrel, or drag it on.

It really was too lovely a morning to pick a quarrel with anyone about bird-nesting.

Let us not pick a quarrel with the Moroccans.

She'd deliberately picked a quarrel with him just to get rid of him.

"You're not a child any more, Eldon, to come running to your parents if someone picks a quarrel with you.

Under the stimulus of the whisky he picked a quarrel with his wife and attempted to beat her.

I long ago threw down whatever neighboring kings were minded to pick a quarrel with me.

I'm not trying to pick a quarrel, sir.

"But if I were going to pick a quarrel, it would be over all the women here who've glared daggers at me.

And before that he had tried to pick a fight with me.

It made no sense to pick a fight here, so close to Earth.

Perhaps you can pick a fight with a ten year old boy.

He sent you here to pick a fight with me.

"We're not trying to pick a fight with them at all."

I should have found an excuse to pick a fight.

I realized that she was trying to pick a fight with me.

He had actually gone out of his way to pick a fight with an innocent man.

"She just shows up at work and picks a fight?"

"Did the other master really pick a fight with you?"

No one who ever picked a fight with him came out a winner.

"If you've come to pick a fight then you may as well leave," she said.

He just told me to be there at that bar and to pick a fight with you.

Sometimes I'd pick a fight deliberately, just to be sure of getting a little action later on.

At this point I am eager to pick a fight.

"I think you want to pick a fight with her.

"If anyone wants to pick a fight then we are the fighters".

He stood there, waiting for me to pick a fight, to challenge him.

Perhaps he had come out too late to pick a fight with that black stranger.

Are you trying to pick a fight before I have a chance?"

The sin to pick a fight with a good fellow.

"If he picked a fight she would go for him with anything that was to hand.

Just from the speed, the bad guys would be too scared to pick a fight.

In fact, he'd turn and walk the other way if someone tried to pick a fight."