be at loggerheads (with somebody)DISAGREEif two people are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly 与某人)不和,发生严重分歧
be at loggerheads (with somebody) over
He is at loggerheads with many of his own party over the issue of taxation.
他在课税的问题上和自己党内的很多人争执不下。
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be at loggerheads (with somebody)• His trustedadvisersare at loggerheads, and he can not put off a decision much longer.• Interview he sez the idea that industrialistsare at loggerheads with conservationists needs to be dispelled.• When kings were at loggerheads with their clergy, which was not their usualrelationship, moralityconstituted the most dramatic battleground.• Now Nicholas's parents and his old school are at loggerheads.• I think Himmler and Speer are at loggerheads.• Peasants in grain-short areas may well be at loggerheads with those in grain-surplus areas.
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loggerheads• Second, the idea that two groups are at absoluteloggerheadsignores the community of interest in the political class.• Pundits are also at loggerheads about the crisis.• I think Himmler and Speer are at loggerheads.• The pair have been at loggerheads over which of them was more worthy of the player of the centuryaccolade.• The president has been at such loggerheads with the GOP-controlled Congress that not a lot has been accomplished.
Originloggerheads
(1800-1900)loggerhead“stupid person, large head, type of heavy tool”((16-20 centuries)), from logger“block of wood”((16-18 centuries)) (probably from → LOG1) + head