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take issue with

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 , meaning "take the opposite side of a case." [Late 1600s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
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