at loggerheads

WOTD – 24 January 2010    

English

Prepositional phrase

at loggerheads

1. (figuratively) unable to agree; opposing

   We were really at loggerheads about what to do with the money we found on the side of the road; she said we should turn it in, I said we should keep it.

See also

• at sixes and sevens

Translations

(figuratively) unable to agree; opposing

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 分歧 (cmn) (fēnqí), 不和 (cmn) (bùhé)

• Finnish: napit vastakkain (fi), tukkanuottasilla (fi)
• French: comme chien et chat (fr) (like cat and dog), diamétralement opposés (fr)

• Icelandic: elda grátt silfur (is)
• Russian: в ссоре (ru) (v ssóre), несогласный (ru) (nesoglásnyj), как кошка с собакой (ru) (kak kóška s sobákoj) (like cat and dog), на ножах (ru) (na nožáx)