[Ads-l] A question of dialogue

[Joel Berson]

There's a simpler replacement: "have it out with."  Two OED quotations, with illustrative context:
1931   D. L. Sayers Five Red Herrings xii. 132   Some rigmarole about always finding the so-and-so hanging round his place and he wanted to have it out with him.

2003   R. Gervais & S. Merchant Office 2nd Ser. Episode 2. 81   Brent: I've just had it out with Neil. He showed his true colours, didn't he?
Joel


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 From: "Cohen, Gerald Leonard" <gcohen at MST.EDU>
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Might be a blend: "have it in for someone" + "be out to get someone" .
Gerald Cohen

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> On Jun 1, 2015, at 5:18 PM, Laurence Horn <laurence.horn at YALE.EDU> wrote:
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>> On Jun 1, 2015, at 7:06 PM, Wilson Gray <hwgray at GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>> "Why would anyone have it _out_ for Bronson?"
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>> Someone had it in for the script-writer, perhaps. Language-change in
>> progress, again, since I've come across "in" replaced by "out," in =
> this
>> context, numerous of ;-) times, over the past dekkids.
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> Almost a kind of syntactic eggcorn in that "have it in for" does kind of 
> seem opaque and there might be influence from "have it out with". 
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> LH
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