caballo de batalla

Spanish

Etymology

Compare French cheval de bataille.

Noun

caballo de batalla m (plural caballos de batalla)

(idiomatic) bone of contention

Further reading

“caballo de batalla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

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