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Wives apparently in angry or frank discussion (8,2,5)

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I believe the answer is:

exchange of views

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'discussion' is the definition.
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'wives apparently in angry or frank' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'wives' is 'views' which is present in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).

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