Mar 10, 2015 · Idiom to be at loggerheads with someone over sth The meaning is to be in strong disagreement with someone struggling constantly as in The two governments are still at loggerheads …

I am writing a book and looking for some kind of figurative language to describe two people that are 'at odds' with each other. When I say, 'at odds,' the context of my writing is: two characters t...

Other potentially relevant idioms, depending on the intensity of the conflict or incompatibility, include at loggerheads (which Ammer defines as "engaged in a a quarrel or dispute"), and at daggers drawn …

I have voted to close this question. It is based on a false premise and has led to an off-topic debate about a specific example. Note: The false premise is that a plural noun can be preceded by 'each'. It …

What is the origin of the expression "to run roughshod over someone"? I have heard it being used by Mitt Romney, but I couldn't find if it has an American origin.

Aug 22, 2012 · What's the word to describe someone who acts arrogantly and always disagrees with others unreasonably in order to upset people around him/her? [I'm not looking for adjectives like …

May 15, 2022 · In David Copperfield, Mrs Markleham: “You might put ME into a Jail, with genteel society and a rubber, and I should never care to come out.” What is the meaning of rubber here?

May 3, 2015 · I would reserve objectively necessary for situations in which objective and subjective interpretations might be at loggerheads—ethics and law, as a matter of fact!

Update: Another reference is A Handbook for Scholars (2nd edition) by Mary-Claire Van Leunen. On page 130 she writes: "For example" gives notice that only some members of a set are to be …