Usually means: Fight after escalating verbal argument.
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  1. come to blows: Merriam-Webster
  2. come to blows, come to blows: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. come to blows: Collins English Dictionary
  4. come to blows: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  5. come to blows: Wiktionary
  6. come to blows: Dictionary.com
  7. come to blows: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. come to blows: Idioms

Definitions from Wiktionary (come to blows)

verb:  (idiomatic) To fight; to initiate physical conflict, especially subsequent to escalating tension or antagonism.
verb:  (impersonal) To degrade into a fight or physical conflict (in reference to an argument or to a situation of tension or antagonism).

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