at loggerheads

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English

WOTD – 24 January 2010

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from the use of a loggerhead (“metal tool consisting of a long rod with a bulbous end”) as a weapon during a fight.

Pronunciation

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.

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  1. ^ “loggerhead, n.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, 1903.
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