東野圭吾の "JOURNEY UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN" を読んでいます。
'Of course, yeah. Tell you the truth, I still don't blieve it. I mean, who would kill the boss? Maybe it was a mistake?'
'Can't think of anyone who might've wanted to do something like this?'
'Not a one.'
'In this line of business, you must get a lot of different kinds of customers. You're sure there wasn't anyone with a bone to pick? Maybe about money?'
"a bone to pick" この慣用句は見覚えがありますが意味を思い出せません。 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A disagreeable matter to settle with somebody.: "I say, Winthrop," he cried, "I've got a bone to pick with you. You've been hitting me pretty hard in that rag of yours."
・Urban Dictionary: something to argue about, a matter to discuss: Joe sounded angry when he said, "I have a bone to pick with you."
'Of course, yeah. Tell you the truth, I still don't blieve it. I mean, who would kill the boss? Maybe it was a mistake?'
'Can't think of anyone who might've wanted to do something like this?'
'Not a one.'
'In this line of business, you must get a lot of different kinds of customers. You're sure there wasn't anyone with a bone to pick? Maybe about money?'
"a bone to pick" この慣用句は見覚えがありますが意味を思い出せません。 辞書を見ます。
・Oxford English Dictionary: A disagreeable matter to settle with somebody.: "I say, Winthrop," he cried, "I've got a bone to pick with you. You've been hitting me pretty hard in that rag of yours."
・Urban Dictionary: something to argue about, a matter to discuss: Joe sounded angry when he said, "I have a bone to pick with you."
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