| 单词 | to be at each other's throats |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto be at each other's (also one another's) throats c. to be at each other's (also one another's) throats : to fight or quarrel angrily. ΚΠ 1844 Med. Times 4 May 93/1 The two divisions of legislative Solomons who honour this august nation, are at each other's throats on the dispute. 1919 Washington Post 28 Sept. es 4/2 Two Republican factions were at each other's throats. 1926 Edinb. Rev. Dec. 36 They would be at each other's throats before the end of the year! 1949 D. M. Davin Roads from Home i. i. 21 ‘The old fellow's gone at last.’ ‘You don't say.’ ‘Yes, and a hard fight he made of it, they say, with the sons hardly waiting for him to go before they were at one another's throats over who was to have his leavings.’ 1978 I. B. Singer Shosha 265 The women are at each other's throats. 2015 Guardian (Nexis) 29 July By three o'clock on Friday morning they were all at one another's throats in an unseemly quarrel. < as lemmas |
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