英语词汇“butting of heads”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

butting of heads n. (a) the action or an act of an animal or person striking heads with another; cf. headbutting n.; (b) figurative conflict or strong disagreement between parties, esp. when attempting to bring about change; an instance of this.

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1837 H. H. Spry Mod. India I. vi. 260 The ram fights were never very attractive. It was merely a brutal butting of heads.

1866 Harper's Mag. June 26/2 No more jolting, and punching, and butting of heads [in a stagecoach] to be endured on that route at least.

1895 Amer. Mag. Civics Aug. 225 It is very easy to exclaim, ‘Go to the caucuses,’ but the going..proves to be simply an abortive butting of heads against the machines of party politicians.

1929 R. P. T. Coffin Attic Room 100 I have never seen such blows—arms crooked about the neck, elbow stabs, butting of heads.

1973 Nucl. Industry Oct. 22/1 Another site-geology imbroglio.., enlivened by charges of bad faith in withholding information..and open butting of heads by two Federal agencies over acceptability of still another site.

2000 A. C. Isenberg Destr. Bison 67 Most battles consisted merely of a brief butting of heads and locking of horns.

2017 Daily Cardinal (Univ. of Wisconsin) (Nexis) 12 June 1 When I joined the board..as a younger member..interested in lifting up other voices, I think there was some butting of heads and some challenges.

单词	butting of heads
释义	> as lemmas butting of heads butting of heads n. (a) the action or an act of an animal or person striking heads with another; cf. headbutting n.; (b) figurative conflict or strong disagreement between parties, esp. when attempting to bring about change; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1837 H. H. Spry Mod. India I. vi. 260 The ram fights were never very attractive. It was merely a brutal butting of heads. 1866 Harper's Mag. June 26/2 No more jolting, and punching, and butting of heads [in a stagecoach] to be endured on that route at least. 1895 Amer. Mag. Civics Aug. 225 It is very easy to exclaim, ‘Go to the caucuses,’ but the going..proves to be simply an abortive butting of heads against the machines of party politicians. 1929 R. P. T. Coffin Attic Room 100 I have never seen such blows—arms crooked about the neck, elbow stabs, butting of heads. 1973 Nucl. Industry Oct. 22/1 Another site-geology imbroglio.., enlivened by charges of bad faith in withholding information..and open butting of heads by two Federal agencies over acceptability of still another site. 2000 A. C. Isenberg Destr. Bison 67 Most battles consisted merely of a brief butting of heads and locking of horns. 2017 Daily Cardinal (Univ. of Wisconsin) (Nexis) 12 June 1 When I joined the board..as a younger member..interested in lifting up other voices, I think there was some butting of heads and some challenges. extracted from buttingn.⁴ < as lemmas
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