As the clouds over our dining room grew heavy with bile, and the winds of bickering blew across the table — Keep it up, my father would growl at my brother, fists clenched beside his dinner plate, see what it gets you — I would jump down from my chair and make my way to the foot of the table.
The former Olympic rower James Cracknell's attempt to rekindle his bromance with Ben Fogle by bickering their way across a desert with camels in tow doesn't count.
It is one of the most popular genres on French TV, with hits including shy farmers looking for love on tractors, bickering couples hitchhiking across the developing world, people locked in loft apartments together and bitchy competitions over dinner menus and table decorations.
A previous resettlement scheme, designed to distribute refugees across EU member states, has floundered amid bickering over quotas.
Meanwhile, Exxon and its partners have just sent their first oil across the Tatar Strait.Exxon and the Russian government are bickering over the rights to deposits around the edge of the consortium's fields.
From across the road I can hear Constance and my wife bickering through our open front door.
Election observers from the European Union, the British Commonwealth and other groups are still fanning out across the country and the government and the M.D.C. are still bickering over the precise number of deaths.
Sitting across from each other, Mr. Wolfensohn and Ms. Small spent much of the evening bickering about where Egypt is.
It's a testament to how he never went for the obvious; the show was a light a frothy romp concerning two bickering playboys getting into japes and scrapes across Europe, the theme music provides all the depth.
As memorably embodied by Josef Bierbichler, Brecht, who is 58 at the time of the story, comes across as a sacred monster slavishly attended by a regiment of jealous, bickering women.
