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Phrase(s): take issue with something
to disagree with or argue about something. • I have to take issue with that statement. • I want to take issue with the last statement you made., Phrase(s): take issue with someone
to argue with someone. • I heard your last statement and I have to take issue with you. • Tom took issue with Maggie about the cost of the house.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs
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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]
American Heritage Idioms