take issue with

English

Verb

take issue with (third-person singular simple present takes issue with, present participle taking issue with, simple past took issue with, past participle taken issue with)

1. To disagree with something, and to raise objections to it.
   • 2026 August 15, Irene Adeline Milanez, “We tasted boba from some of the Bay Area’s most popular chains. Here’s our No. 1”, in San Francisco Chronicle‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 August 2026:

     We took issue with the boba, which were firm in the center and borderline undercooked.

Usage notes

• Sometimes conflated with "to have issues," thus forming "to have issue [with]"

Synonyms

• take issue to, call into question,

Translations

to disagree with s.th., and to raise objections to it

• German: überhaupt nicht einverstanden sein mit etwas, Widerspruch erheben gegen etwas, Einwände erheben gegen etwas

See also

• take exception to