patch up a the (one's) quarrel Идиома
pick a quarrel
start a quarrel with someone on purpose I don
Quarrel with bread and butter
Bread and butter, here, indicate the means of one’s living. (That is why we say ‘he is the bread winner of the family’). If a sub-ordinate in an organisation is quarrelsome or if he is not patient enough to bear the reprimand he deserves, gets angry and retorts or provokes the higher-up, the top man dismisses him from the job. So, he loses the job that gave him bread and butter. Hence we say, he quarrelled with bread and butter (manager or the top man) and lost his job.
pick a quarrel|pick|quarrel
v. phr. To seek the opportunity for a fight or a quarrel.
When Charlie has too much to drink, he has a tendency to pick a quarrel with whomever happens to be around. See: PICK A FIGHT.
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