单词 | at loggerheads |
释义 | at loggerheadsIn violent dispute or disagreement: councillors were at loggerheads with the government over the grant allocation...
Synonyms in disagreement, at odds, at variance, in opposition, at cross purposes, out of step, quarrelling, clashing, at outs; in conflict, at war, at daggers drawn, fighting, wrangling, feuding, conflicting, locking horns, estranged informal at each other's throats, like cat and dog Perhaps a use of loggerhead in the late 17th-century sense 'long-handled iron instrument for heating liquids and tar' (when wielded as a weapon) See parent entry: loggerhead |
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