AT LOGGERHEADS Definition & Meaning

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at loggerheads

Engaged in a head-on dispute: “Labor and management are at loggerheads in this affair, and it may be some time before they can negotiate a settlement.”

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Idioms and Phrases

Engaged in a quarrel or dispute, as in The two families were always at loggerheads, making it difficult to celebrate holidays together . This term may have come from some earlier meaning of loggerhead , referring either to a blockhead or stupid person, or to a long-handled iron poker with a bulb-shaped end that was heated in the fire and used to melt pitch. If it was the latter, it may have been alluded to as a weapon. [Late 1600s] For a synonym, see at odds .

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When it came to telling Ono’s story, Sheff found himself at loggerheads over the ethics of authoring her biography.

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Little says he and Hogshead were at loggerheads when he disagreed with her tactics in confronting universities and entities over violations of Title IX, the federal law mandating gender equality in higher education sports programs.

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And that is where the modern left and the modern right are at loggerheads, in the sense that the left sees government as a solution, and the right sees government itself as a problem.

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But there was a warning, from China – admittedly not a signatory to the ICC and currently at loggerheads with the Philippines – not to politicise ICC cases.

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Now the prime minister confronts a situation where two of the UK's allies are at loggerheads in the most public and angry way.

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