fregado
mess ; row ; fray ; wrangle ; spat ; squabbling ; squabble ; bickering ; fracas ; fallout.
'Look, Mel,' said James after the hiatus, 'I'm irritated at the convoluted mess this simple case of filling a vacancy has become'.
The rows over Britain's contributions to the Community budget and runaway spending on the the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), which took up two thirds of the budget, were documented blow by blow in the press.
The academic librarian, by remaining neutral, can stay above the fray and does not need to take sides in order to provide scholars with access to the truth.
This is a history of The Old Librarian's Almanack (a pamphlet produced as a hoax in 1909) and of the literary wrangles which ensued from its publication.
It also includes a blow-by-blow account of spats between management and labor.
The DVD-RW drive has arrived but not without lots of squabbling among industry competitors.
One might mistakenly be left with the impression that the crisis is a mere 'banana republic' squabble over power.
Even if the management decided to make an arbitrary decision, it would be better than the endless bickering and ad-hoc measures we are having to put up with.
There are, as I see it, approximately three positions one can take on the matter, each with its own adherents in the current fracas.
Two men who beat another to death in a fallout over a cannabis crop have been gaoled for life.
meterse en todos los fregados
have + a finger in every pie
Now with a whole spectrum of collaborative projects, they seem to have a finger in every pie.
