pick a quarrel
pick a fight

He sent you here to pick a fight with me.

It made no sense to pick a fight here, so close to Earth.

And before that he had tried to pick a fight with me.

Perhaps you can pick a fight with a ten year old boy.

Don't try to pick a fight with me over who designed it.

He stood there, waiting for me to pick a fight, to challenge him.

I realized that she was trying to pick a fight with me.

He just told me to be there at that bar and to pick a fight with you.

"Did the other master really pick a fight with you?"

I should have found an excuse to pick a fight.