Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun bone_of_contention

1 sense of bone of contention

Sense 1
bone of contention -- (the subject of a dispute; "the real bone of contention, as you know, is money")
       => subject, topic, theme -- (the subject matter of a conversation or discussion; "he didn't want to discuss that subject"; "it was a very sensitive topic"; "his letters were always on the theme of love")