at loggerheads

WOTD - 24 January 2010    

English

Adjective

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 (zh), 不和 (zh) Finnish: napit vastakkain (fi), tukkanuottasilla (fi) French: comme chien et chat (fr), 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), быть на ножах (ru)