pick a fight

idiom

: to deliberately start a fight with someone

It would be foolish to pick a fight with that guy.

Examples of pick a fight in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Occasionally a table will be brought out to suggest another bar, another time, for Elmer to get drunk in and pick a fight, or a safe will be wheeled on stage for the clueless Elmer to try to blow up. —Greg Evans, Deadline, 27 Apr. 2025

Yuskavage’s works want to pick a fight with the viewer, to force them to look away or even feel guilty about looking. —Tom Teicholz, Forbes.com, 18 Apr. 2025

While few want to pick a fight with Washington publicly, the region is rattled. —Simone McCarthy, CNN Money, 7 Apr. 2025

Sometimes, leaders pick a fight with a big personality to exert their authority, and although only Amorim knows what his motivations for ostracizing Rashford are, his decision not to attempt to reintegrate the forward quickly appeared to harden to the point of principle. —Zak Garner-Purkis, Forbes, 25 Mar. 2025

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