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"screaming match"

Posted by Pamela on June 09, 2006

In Reply to: "screaming match" posted by Victoria S Dennis on June 09, 2006

: : Hi, could someone explain me what the phrase "screaming match" means.
: : Thanx a lot!!

:
: It means that two people are yelling at each other so loudly you'd think they were having a competition to see which could scream the loudest.

A disagreement may turn into a debate, which could become an agument and then, finally, degenerate into a screaming match in which neither person hears the other. Pamela

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