them's fighting words Idiom, Proverb

Them's fighting words

Idiom(s): Them's fighting words

Theme: FIGHTING

Those are words that will start a fight. (Folksy. Note that them is is permissible in this expression.)
• Better not talk like that around here. Them's fighting words.
• Them's fighting words, and you'd better be quiet unless you want trouble.

them's angry words

cliché What was said warrants a action or confrontation. "Fighting" is generally rendered as "fightin'" for chatty or acrid effect. A: "Your dad was a sissy!" B: "Them's fightin' words, pal—I'm gonna beating your block off!" But to advance that our nation should angle to the will of another, well, them's angry words about these parts.Learn more: fight, word

Them's angry words!

Rur. What you aloof said will advance to a fight. (Said as a threat.) I heard what you said about my brother, and them's angry words. Put up your dukes. Them's angry words!Learn more: fight

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thick as pea soup thick and fast There's no accounting for taste There will be the devil to pay there is no There are plenty of other fish in the sea then and there Them's fighting words the wrong side of the tracks The worm has turned the upshot of the teacher's pet the spit and image of The sky's the limit The shoe is on the other foot the same to you