score to settle
idiom
: something bad that was done to someone that the harmed person keeps in mind in order to do something bad in return
He says he has a few (old) scores to settle.
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The Indianapolis Colts start the 2024 NFL season with a score to settle with longtime rival Houston Texans and a lot to prove to the rest of the league.
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Justin L. MacK, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
That leads her to a shady tech company with plenty of skeletons in the closet, a pinky-less yakuza leader with a score to settle, and plenty more encounters with her burgeoning nemeses — the robots.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 July 2024
But Tadej Pogačar, a Slovenian wunderkind riding for UAE Team Emirates, has a score to settle.
—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 28 June 2024
The Blazers have a score to settle from two years ago when Southern Miss took a 37-2 win in Dylan Hopkins’ first career start.
—Evan Dudley, al, 14 Oct. 2021
The film revisits the same themes of Rocky’s fraught relationship with Apollo, as Adonis reunites, then goes glove-to-glove, with Dame Anderson (Jonathan Majors), an old friend with a score to settle.
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
The actor, who is also a high-profile figure in Scientology — a church that counts dozens of Hollywood actors among its members — denied their claims, effectively maintaining that angry ex-Scientologists had a score to settle and pointed to ex-Scientologist and actress Leah Remini.
—Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2022
The Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles also have a score to settle.
—Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2022
Having a score to settle?
—Tom McCoy, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
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Justin L. MacK, Axios, 5 Sep. 2024
That leads her to a shady tech company with plenty of skeletons in the closet, a pinky-less yakuza leader with a score to settle, and plenty more encounters with her burgeoning nemeses — the robots.
—Ben Travers, IndieWire, 10 July 2024
But Tadej Pogačar, a Slovenian wunderkind riding for UAE Team Emirates, has a score to settle.
—Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 28 June 2024
The Blazers have a score to settle from two years ago when Southern Miss took a 37-2 win in Dylan Hopkins’ first career start.
—Evan Dudley, al, 14 Oct. 2021
The film revisits the same themes of Rocky’s fraught relationship with Apollo, as Adonis reunites, then goes glove-to-glove, with Dame Anderson (Jonathan Majors), an old friend with a score to settle.
—Jennifer M. Wood, WIRED, 30 Dec. 2022
The actor, who is also a high-profile figure in Scientology — a church that counts dozens of Hollywood actors among its members — denied their claims, effectively maintaining that angry ex-Scientologists had a score to settle and pointed to ex-Scientologist and actress Leah Remini.
—Victoria Bekiempis, Vulture, 30 Nov. 2022
The Dallas Cowboys and Philadelphia Eagles also have a score to settle.
—Jaylon Thompson, USA TODAY, 16 Oct. 2022
Having a score to settle?
—Tom McCoy, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2022
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“Score to settle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/score%20to%20settle. Accessed 8 Nov. 2024.
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