bullfightingfightin Thành ngữ, tục ngữ
a fighting chance
fighting chance
Them's fighting words
Idiom(s): Them's fighting wordsTheme: 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.
go down fighting
Idiom(s): go down fightingTheme: COMPLETION
to continue the struggle until one is completely defeated.
• I won't give up easily. I'll go down fighting.
• Sally, who is very determined, went down fighting.
fighting chance|chance|fight|fighting
n. phr. A chance that necessitates struggle and courage; a slim chance. The doctor told the family that Jack had a fighting chance to recover. Our business lost a lot of money, but we have a fighting chance to stage a comeback.fighting words
fighting wordsA statement bound to start a quarrel or fight. It is often expressed as them's fighting words, as in You say your father's smarter than mine? Them's fighting words. The ungrammatical use of them's for “those are” emphasizes the folksy tone of this colloquialism, first recorded in Ring Lardner's Gullible's Travels (1917).
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