Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary - fight out

If two people or groups fight something out, they fight or argue until one of them wins. Instead of retaliating, he walks away leaving his team-mates to fight it out... Malcolm continued to fight it out with Julien from his self-imposed exile in Paris. PHRASAL VERB: pl-n V it P, V it P with n, also pl-n V P n (not pron), V P n with n