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Disagree with, as in I take issue with those figures; they don't include last month's sales . This idiom comes from legal terminology, where it was originally put as to join issue , meaning “take the opposite side of a case.” [Late 1600s]

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April 24, 2024gallimaufry

[gal-uh-maw-free ]

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