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单词 to come to loggerheads
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to come to loggerheads
8. plural in various phrases. to fall, get, go to loggerheads: to come to blows. to be at loggerheads: to be contending about differences of opinion; also, rarely, to come to loggerheads. [The use is of obscure origin; perhaps the instrument described in sense 3, or something similar, may have been used as a weapon.]
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society > society and the community > dissent > fighting > fight [verb (intransitive)] > come to blows
to come to strokes1297
to fall in hand (also hands)1448
to fall to1577
come (or go), fall, get to blows1594
to go or fall to cuffsa1616
to fall, get, go to loggerheads1671
society > society and the community > dissent > at variance [phrase]
in (also into, on, a) piecesa1275
in strife1398
at traversc1448
at issue1474
at a strife1488
at variancea1535
at square1545
at (a) jar1552
at (or to) daggers' drawing1556
at (a) mutiny1567
in (a) mutiny1567
at wrig-wrag1599
at daggers drawn1668
at (or at the, on the) outs1824
loggerhead1831
at daggers' points1857
at swords' points1890
1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue IV. i. sig. B4 They frequently quarrell'd about their Scicilian wenches, and indeed..they seem..to be worth the going to Logger-heads for.
1681 Arraignm.,Tryal & Condemnation S. Colledge 49 So we went to loggerheads together, I think that was the word, or Fisty-cuffs.
1755 T. Smollett tr. M. de Cervantes Don Quixote I. i. viii. 41 The others..went to loggerheads with Sancho, whom they soon overthrew.
1806 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 63 In order to destroy one member of the administration, the whole were to be set to loggerheads.
1831 J. W. Croker in Croker Papers 25 Jan. (1884) II I hear from London that our successors are at loggerheads.
1887 W. P. Frith Autobiogr. I. xxiv. 347 The Lord Chancellor..and the Bishop came to loggerheads in the House of Lords.
1955 Bull. Atomic Scientists Mar. 90/3 Uranium men and oil and gas producers had long been at loggerheads due to the fact these natural substances frequently occur on the same site, though at different horizons.
1955 Times 19 May 4/2 The jury would not have much difficulty in getting rid of that suggestion, because those two were obviously at loggerheads.
1975 J. Gardner Killer for Song i. 13 ‘James, it's good to see you.’ His expression was at loggerheads with the words.
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