Whats the beef?

patiodog wrote:

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It doesn't really mean "what's your argument with me" ?

It did where I'm from.









(Please poing those scissors somewhere else, wouldja?)

In that case, we would say, What's your beef? not WHERE'S THE beef, n'est-ce pas?

Mame wrote:

patiodog wrote:

Quote:

It doesn't really mean "what's your argument with me" ?

It did where I'm from.









(Please poing those scissors somewhere else, wouldja?)

In that case, we would say, What's your beef? not WHERE'S THE beef, n'est-ce pas?

I were addressing the title of the thread.

If I can say, "What's your beef?" or "What's his beef?" then could I not, as a third party observer, approach a party where clearly there was a beef, but ownership of said beef was not immediately apparent, ask of one of the participants or of a fellow disinterested observer, "What's the beef?"

We know what it means, we just don't know the origin--and we might differ on usages. For example, i think that PPD is incorrect--it would be appropriate to approach a situation as a third party and ask another third party "what's the beef?"--meaning, what's the cause of the uproar.