A wrangle, dispute, brawl; a petty quarrel.
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There was- there have been like two sort of incidents like that, and it was basically about the same thing. But um, we have like little squabbles I guess. Like, he'll do something that like hurts my feelings. And it's like, he doesn't even realize. And I'm- so I'm kind-of pissed off. |
Noisy fights about something petty |
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Yeah. Everything is for, for them and for thems-- yes, Canada has a reputation of um, um, we get compliments of, in Toronto how well the um, city, how the nationalities have blended. I mean, I 'm sure there 's squabbles we don 't know about but by-and-large the communities, they do live together. |
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Oh yeah. You-know, I always say- as I say, there were four brothers of us, and we used to always say, "First out, best dressed," 'cause most of our- well between my oldest brother and my youngest, there was only seven years different, and you-know, when we got- you-know, and- we- we could wear one another's shoes or jackets or- but there was always a squabble, you-know, 'cause if you went to school earlier and you had your brother Tom's jacket on and he wanted to show off for this, he 'd be- he 'd be mad at you... |
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Speaker: As far as you-know violence was limited to children's squabbles and- Interviewer: Sure Speaker: And the odd driver was just driving a little too fast through the- the ball-hockey games. |
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No it was always who's gonna do the washing of the dishes, who's gonna dry. And my job on Saturdays was to dust the furniture, um. I guess we had little squabbles, but nothing. No. |
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Pretty well I think (coughs) for the most part yeah. I mean we had occasional flare-ups and ah certainly when we were kids we had squabbles and-so-on, but ah but I think for the most part we did. |
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Any argument I remember. Mm none offhand. We just- stupid little squabbles that ah you-know those things that we get at- we'd fight over a toy or um we used to gang up a lot on each other. |
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And they still are. I'm not saying we're all perfect or we never have squabbles or disagreements and- we don't all vote for the same party (laughs). And we really don't care, you-know, and that's the way it should be. |
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Speaker: I was out for vengeance. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: But yeah, just little squabbles like brothers or- Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: I guess brothers have 'cause that's basically what we were. |
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Oh yes, oh yes. Uh-huh. Well, my sister and I used to (laughs) have little- little squabbles but (laughs) she's here, she's upstairs and... |
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They banned her from playing hockey down there. But, yeah I can't think of any bad things that happen like, everyb-- you had your little squabbles... |
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