Argue the toss

Definition

argue /'ɑ:gju:/ v ၁။ ~ (with sb) (about/ over sth) စကား မ်ားသည္။ ခံေျပာသည္။ ျငင္းခံုသည္။ The couple next door are always arguing. ❍ Don't argue with your mother. ❍ We had to argue with the waiter about the price of the meal. ၂။ ~ (for/ against sth) ေထာက္ခံသည္။ (သို႔) ကန္႔ကြက္သည္။ He argues convincingly. ❍ argue for the right to strike ❍ I argued that we needed a larger office. ❍ British Rail have argued the case for reducing the frequency of services. ၃။ ( fml ) ရည္ၫႊန္းသည္။ This latest move argues a change in government thinking. ❏ arguable /'a:gjuǝbl/ adj ၁။ ျငင္းခံုေဆြးေႏြးႏိုင္ေသာ။ It is arguable that we would be just as efficient with fewer staff. ၂။ ေစာဒကတက္ႏိုင္ေသာ။ This account contains many arguable points/statements. ❏ arguably /-ǝbli/ adv မည္သို႔ဆိုေစ။ It is, arguably, a more important painting than Van Gogh's ‘Irises’. ❍ Branagh is arguably the best actor of his generation. ❏ argue sb into/out of doing sth [ PHRV ] လုပ္သင့္၊ မလုပ္သင့္ေၾကာင္း က်ဳိးေၾကာင္းျပ၍ တိုက္တြန္း သည္။ They argued him into withdrawing his complaint. ❏ argue the toss [ IDM ] ( Brit ) ဆံုးျဖတ္ခ်က္အေပၚ သေဘာမတူေၾကာင္း ထုတ္ေဖာ္ေျပာဆိုသည္။ It's not worth arguing the toss over such a trivial matter.

Examples

1. Those girls are always arguing!
2. [argue with] : Don’t argue with me – you know I’m right.
3. [argue about/over] : We used to argue over who should drive.
4. The programme gives people a chance to argue their ideas.
5. [argue about/over] : They are still arguing over the details of the contract.
6. Successful economies
7. she argues
8. are those with the lowest taxes.
9. [argue for/against] : Woolf’s report argued for (=supported) an improvement in prison conditions.
10. [argue that] : Reuben opposed the new road
11. arguing that it wasn’t worth spending $25 million to cut seven minutes off drivers’ journey times.
12. Several people stood up to argue against (=say they do not support) moving the students to the new school.