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to spoil for (to be spoiling for)

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  • spoil for — PHRASAL VERB: only cont If you are spoiling for a fight, you are very eager for it to happen. [V P n] A mob armed with guns was at the border between the two republics, spoiling for a fight …   English dictionary

  • spoil for — {v. phr.} To want something very badly; be belligerent or pugnacious about something. * /After a few drinks it became embarrassingly evident that Hal was spoiling for a fight./ Compare: HANKER AFTER, LUST FOR …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • spoil for — {v. phr.} To want something very badly; be belligerent or pugnacious about something. * /After a few drinks it became embarrassingly evident that Hal was spoiling for a fight./ Compare: HANKER AFTER, LUST FOR …   Dictionary of American idioms

  • spoil\ for — v. phr. To want something very badly; be belligerent or pugnacious about something. After a few drinks it became embarrassingly evident that Hal was spoiling for a fight. Compare: hanker after, lust for …   Словарь американских идиом

  • spoil for a fight — try to begin a fight, chip on his shoulder, cruising for a bruising    Bud was spoiling for a fight with me. He said, You re too chicken to fight, ain t you? …   English idioms

  • spoil — [[t]spɔ͟ɪl[/t]] spoils, spoiling, spoiled, spoilt (American English uses the form spoiled as the past tense and past participle. British English uses either spoiled or spoilt.) 1) VERB If you spoil something, you prevent it from being successful… …   English dictionary

  • spoiling — noun 1. the process of becoming spoiled • Syn: ↑spoilage • Derivationally related forms: ↑spoil, ↑spoil (for: ↑spoilage) • Hypernyms: ↑decay …   Useful english dictionary

  • spoil — [c]/spɔɪl / (say spoyl) verb (spoiled or spoilt, spoiling) –verb (t) 1. to damage or impair (a thing) irreparably as to excellence, value, usefulness, etc.: to spoil a sheet of paper. 2. to impair in character or disposition by unwise treatment,… …  

  • spoil — v. (d; intr.; usu. in a progressive form) to spoil for ( to seek ) (to be spoiling for a fight) * * * [spɔɪl] (d; intr.;usu. in a progressive form) to spoil for (to be spoiling for a fight; to seek ) …   Combinatory dictionary

  • spoil — [ spɔıl ] verb ** ▸ 1 make worse ▸ 2 allow child everything ▸ 3 treat someone with care ▸ 4 food: become too old ▸ 5 in election ▸ + PHRASES 1. ) transitive to affect something in a way that makes it worse, less attractive, or less enjoyable:… …   Usage of the words and phrases in modern English

  • spoil — [spoil] vt. spoiled or Brit. spoilt, spoiling [ME spoilen < MFr espoillier < L spoliare, to plunder < spolium, arms taken from a defeated foe, plunder, orig., hide stripped from an animal < IE base * (s)p(h)el , to split, tear off… …   English World dictionary

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