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at issue
1. Under discussion. The topic at issue is whether or not to implement a new detention policy. I hear that controversial new parking policy is at issue in today's city council meeting. Please tell me that mandatory overtime is at issue in the board meeting.
2. In disagreement. They are at issue over the best way to lead the committee. It seems like my teen daughters are always at issue over one thing or another. I get that you're both angry, but what exactly is at issue here?
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issue
n. problem. (In colloquial use, issue has virtually replaced the word problem. It is even heard in a few idioms such as Do you have an issue with that?) I had an issue with my car this morning. It wouldn’t start. You are late again! Do you have an issue with our office hours?
McGraw-Hill's Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.
- at issue
- be at the heart of the issue
- bedrock issue
- bread-and-butter issue
- burning issue
- cloud the issue
- confuse the issue
- cut to the pith (of something)
- dance around
- dead issue
- dodge the issue
- force the issue
- fudge the issue
- get to the heart of (something)
- get to the heart of the issue
- go (right) to the heart of the issue
- hot-button issue
- issue
- issue (forth) from (some thing or place)
- issue (something) as (something)
- issue (something) to (one)
- issue a call for
- issue a call for (something)
- issue as
- issue from
- issue from some place
- issue to
- issue with
- issue with (something)
- join issue
- join issue with (someone or something)
- kitchen-table issue
- lie at the heart of the issue
- make a point of
- make an issue (out) of (something)
- make an issue of
- make an issue of/out of something
- meat-and-potatoes issue
- pocketbook issue
- side issue
- table (something)
- take issue
- take issue with
- take issue with (someone or something)
- take issue with somebody
- the crux of the issue
- the heart of the issue
- the root of the issue
- whitewash