be spoiling for a fight
be spoiling for an argument

Too many people around here are spoiling for a fight.

They'd gone a long time without action and were spoiling for a fight.

Looks to me like that guy is spoiling for a fight.

There may be those who are spoiling for a fight.

He could see that the man was spoiling for a fight with someone.

As always, it seems, the man is spoiling for a fight.

"I am afraid your father is spoiling for a fight."

He would probably be spoiling for a fight, she guessed.

They were spoiling for a fight all the time, didn't matter the issue.

She was spoiling for a fight and there wouldn't be any getting around it.

Half the passers-by seemed to be spoiling for a fight.

Other than that," and he shook his head, "my people are spoiling for a fight.

"No Campbell ever listened to reason when they were spoiling for a fight."

There was a war on, and she was spoiling for a fight.

In a conversation at the presidential residence last month, she was spoiling for a fight.

People on the left are spoiling for a fight."

Whole echelons of the Soviet establishment are spoiling for a fight.

The Government is spoiling for a fight with the public sector unions in order to crush them.

"Won't do you any good if Vera is spoiling for a fight."

Again I got the impression that Richard was spoiling for a fight.

Even to his own ear, he sounded as if he were spoiling for a fight.

He was spoiling for a fight, but he had to hope that it didn't come to one.

One expects the fomenter of all this controversy to be spoiling for a fight.

Meanwhile, interest groups on both sides are spoiling for a fight and summoning their forces to the Capitol.

But these two divided nations have been spoiling for a fight for almost fifty years now.

Something warned him that the princess was spoiling for an argument, and with an insight that surprised him he reasoned out the source of her unspoken belligerence.

The mole changed the conversation to suit Mem, who could see by the light in her husband's eye that he was spoiling for an argument with Russa.