at loggerheads

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at loggerheads (with someone) and at loggerheads over something

Fig. in conflict with someone; having reached an impasse (about something). Tom is at loggerheads with Bill. We are at loggerheads with each other. The twins were at loggerheads over who should take the larger room.

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A fine thing it would be if the people of the clock town were to be at loggerheads every moment with everyone who called them by that name, -or the Cazoleros, Berengeneros, Ballenatos, Jaboneros, or the bearers of all the other names and titles that are always in the mouth of the boys and common people Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context I did not, of course, maintain friendly relations with my comrades and soon was at loggerheads with them, and in my youth and inexperience I even gave up bowing to them, as though I had cut off all relations. Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context There are the prospectuses that couldn't be distributed, and the architect's plans and estimates, and the whole correspondence which set everybody at loggerheads and ended in a dispute, all down together in that corner, behind the packing-cases. The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context			at first hand at first light at first sight at full blast at full speed at full strength at full stretch at great length at half-mast at hand at hazard at heart at heels at home at home with at issue at it again at knee at large at last at least at least so many at leisure at length at liberty at loggerheads at loose ends at low ebb at most at mother's knee at night at no time at odds at once at one fell swoop at one sitting at one time at one time or another at own game at pains to at peace at peace with at play at point-blank range at present at random at regular intervals at request at rest at risk at sea			At Last (Celine Dion single) At Last (song) At Last (song) at law at law at law at law at least at least at least At Least I Have Chicken At Least in Heaven I Can Skate At Least Once At Least Once Asked Questions at least so many At leastways at leisure at leisure at leisure at leisure at length at length at length at length at length at liberty at liberty at liberty at liberty at limit at loggerheads at loggerheads over at long last at long last at long last at long last at long last At long running at loose ends at loose ends at low ebb At mark At mark At mark at mercy at most at most at most at most at most at mother's knee at mother's knee at mother's knee at mother's knee AT motherboard at my command at my command At My Earliest Convenience At Night at night all cats are gray at night all cats are gray

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