civil beef

Civil Beef if a state being, post incident, held between two or more parties. Typically the involved parties are not willing to act on said beef due to situational factor or possibly being moist.
Civil Beef usually occurs at the work place or family events.

Co-worker 1 - “what’s up between John and Adam? I swear they used to be best friends”
Co-worker 2- “ahh man, didn’t you hear ? They’ve got civil beef”