单词 | at loggerheads |
释义 | at loggerheads (once / 20204 pages) adj WORD FAMILY at loggerheads USAGE EXAMPLESHis first task will be to recapture the UN’s primacy in world security—devilishly hard when America and Russia are at loggerheads. Economist(Oct 13, 2016) Arroyo and Bonnie Kramer, as an impressionable Jack and his beleaguered mother, offer up an endearing portrait of a folkloric child and parent at loggerheads. Washington Post(Dec 11, 2016) And as in Rome, he wrote, in modern-day America “there is definitely a patrician class and a plebeian class” that are “at loggerheads.” Washington Post(Dec 02, 2016) adj in a dispute or confrontation Sam and his parents were at loggerheads over the question of car privileges Syn hostile characterized by enmity or ill will |
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