The phrase "a quarrel about" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing a disagreement or dispute regarding a specific topic or issue.
Example: "Their relationship ended due to a quarrel about finances that escalated over time."
Alternatives: "a dispute over" or "a disagreement regarding".
It was such a quarrel about that movie.
The issue here is not Jarndyce v Jarndyce, a quarrel about small print.
At first glance, this looks like a quarrel about foreign policy.
China and the United States have been embroiled in a quarrel about tech and security that has strained their relationship.
Actually, they have a quarrel about something they've read in the paper, but underneath something else is going on.
The "Opening Skinner's Box" controversy looks like a quarrel about facts, but it's really a duel of stories.
"If I look for the positive side, though, when she goes upstairs, her parents often say that what she is quarreling about is a petty thing, and she will come back down and maybe the whole thing will be forgotten".
This makes it the more remarkable that he was able to lay bare the awful background to the no less awful war in the Crimea; a war that was launched over a stupid quarrel about great-power stewardship in Jerusalem, and thus a war that is still, in our own day, continuing to be fought.
Short story about the writer's relationship with her late mother in Ireland, describing letters her mother sent her over the years, after a distancing quarrel about her failed marriage... Describes a recurring dream about seeing her mother's reflection in a razor.
By Edna O'Brien The New Yorker, March 20, 2000 P. 116 Short story about the writer's relationship with her late mother in Ireland, describing letters her mother sent her over the years, after a distancing quarrel about her failed marriage... Describes a recurring dream about seeing her mother's reflection in a razor..
A month later, it is the focus of a bitter quarrel about the place of Islam in our society.
