caballo de batalla
Spanish
Etymology
Compare French cheval de bataille.
Noun
caballo de batalla m (plural caballos de batalla)
- (idiomatic) bone of contention
Further reading
- “caballo de batalla”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025