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What is "shouting match"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
shouting match
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Once, amid a furious shouting match reported by Clinton biographer David Maraniss, then-Gov.
▪ Precipitating the shouting match at Lindale was a 25-cent increase in the $ 1 admission fee.
▪ She interrupts the shouting match behind her to seek directions to Aunt Molly's hotel.
▪ Their late-night shouting match was so noisy it kept staff awake.
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shouting match

n. An argument or debate characterized by the loudness or intensity of the participants.

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Shouting match

A shouting match is an argument or debate characterized by the loud volume or intensity of the participants.

Usage examples of "shouting match".

People started yelling again, and more and more people were getting up, Hallanslakers and other borderers in a shouting match.

The last thing anybody needed, right now, was to have a shouting match come to blows.

The news about his shouting match with Umbridge had travelled exceptionally fast even by Hogwarts' standards.

He wished he hadn't allowed himself to get in a shouting match with her.

The news about his shouting match with Umbridge had traveled exceptionally fast even by Hogwarts' standards.

One thing and another, it was a relief, when Nerim and Lopin got into a shouting match over whose master's baggage would be carried over first.

She'd never won a shouting match with her boss, and she wasn't likely to start winning that way now.

Owen had been torn between a shouting match with his ancestor or hurrying after Hazel to calm her down, but in the end decided discretion was the better part of valor and left them both to their own devices.

Sheriam Sedai has been in more than one shouting match over it, and we are only novices.