screaming match

Noun

screaming match (plural screaming matches)

1. Synonym of shouting match.
   • In the meanwhile, his wife had let the parrot escape from its cage, and was careering round the room after it; and there was such a fearful screaming-match going on between the two, that Klaproth and I could not hear a word we said to each other; at last he called out something to her in Russian...1876, Karl Friedrich von Klöden, The Self-made Man: Autobiography of Karl Friedrich Von Klöden, page 18
   • Breakfast started well and could have ended well if Little Jane had not tipped a cup of tea over the coffee table. Most of the tea ended up on my lap. It had happened so quickly that I had no chance of evading the stream of tea that came rushing towards me. A screaming match between us ensued.2005, Konye Njoroge, Mworia the Warrior, East African Publishers, →ISBN, page 22

   Synonyms:

   shouting match