| 释义 |
be at daggers drawnBritish (Of two people) be bitterly hostile towards each other: they have been at daggers drawn for weeks over tactics...- The parties to contested actions are often at daggers drawn, and the litigious process serves to exacerbate the hostility between them.
- You know that two people are at daggers drawn when they make a direct statement claiming to be united.
- The Hunting Bill is before the House of Lords, and the metropolitan middle classes and the rural population are at daggers drawn.
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