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单词 at loggerheads
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at loggerheads

In violent dispute or disagreement: councillors were at loggerheads with the government over the grant allocation...
  • The two men had been at loggerheads over a long-running dispute about devolution.
  • The two countries have long been at loggerheads over their maritime boundary, a dispute that centres on the ownership of Mbana Island, in the Gulf of Guinea.
  • These North American basketball stars are at loggerheads as their teams prepare for tomorrow's Superbowl clash.

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)
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