set-to

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[sing.] (informal, especially BrE) a small fight or an argument: We had a bit of a set-to with the neighbours.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

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set-toEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary set-toEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus

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