come to blows (English, verb)
expansion: come to blows (third-person singular simple present comes to blows, present participle coming to blows, simple past came to blows, past participle come to blows)
Senses:
glosses: To fight; to initiate physical conflict, especially subsequent to escalating tension or antagonism.
tags: idiomatic
glosses: To degrade into a fight or physical conflict (in reference to an argument or to a situation of tension or antagonism).
tags: impersonal
Forms:
form: comes to blows
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: coming to blows
tags: participle
present
form: came to blows
tags: past
form: come to blows
tags: participle
past