come to blows

idiom

: to begin fighting : to begin hitting each other

They almost came to blows during their argument.

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Goodwin, Maggie and Marcel assist victims of a hit-and-run incident; Halstead tries to diagnose a patient with seizures; Asher and Archer come to blows with Jack Dayton. —Olivia Mccormack, Washington Post, 18 Jan. 2023

The Jan 16 episode of begins with a replay of the last couple minutes of the previous episode as Jen and Lisa nearly come to blows on a shuttle bus headed to southern Utah. —Scott D. Pierce, The Salt Lake Tribune, 16 Jan. 2022

Still, when Ellie does come to blows with an enemy, the fighting is fluid yet challenging. —Eliana Dockterman, Time, 12 June 2020

Hnath’s play is ultimately unsettling, deeply so when the brothers finally come to blows. —Christine Dolen, Sun Sentinel, 12 Dec. 2022

While the negotiations remain tough, Britain and the European Union are stressing progress and seem less likely to come to blows. —New York Times, 10 Feb. 2022

Birds will sometimes come to blows, parrying with their talons and beaks. —Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 16 Nov. 2021

How and why did these groups come to blows later on? —Randy Dotinga, The Christian Science Monitor, 29 Apr. 2021

While Gifty and her mother do not come to blows or have knockdown arguments, her mother essentially sleeps through the rest of the novel, unable to get out of bed. —Jennifer Wilson, The New Republic, 6 Nov. 2020

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