Join issue

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    Of two people, to argue with one another. UK, idiomatic
  2. 2
    Of two parties to a legal proceeding, to agree to argue about a particular legal claim. UK

    "[W]ith Rejoinders and Replies, / Long Bills, and Anſvvers, ſtuft vvith Lies, / Demurr, Imparlance, and Eſſoign, / The Parties ne'er could Iſſue join: / For Sixteen Years the Cauſe vvas ſpun, / And then ſtood vvhere it firſt begun."

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