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at loggerheads

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log·ger·head  (lôgr-hd, lgr-)
n.
1. A loggerhead turtle.
2. An iron tool consisting of a long handle with a bulbous end, used when heated to melt tar or warm liquids.
3. Nautical A post on a whaleboat used to secure the harpoon rope.
4. Informal
a. A blockhead; a dolt.
b. A disproportionately large head.
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at loggerheads
Engaged in a dispute: The question of car privileges put Sam and his parents at loggerheads.
[Probably dialectal logger, wooden block (probably from log1) + head.]
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Adj.1.at loggerheads - in a dispute or confrontation; "Sam and his parents were at loggerheads over the question of car privileges"
hostile - characterized by enmity or ill will; "a hostile nation"; "a hostile remark"; "hostile actions"
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A fine thing it would be if the people of the clock town were to be at loggerheads every moment with everyone who called them by that name, -or the Cazoleros, Berengeneros, Ballenatos, Jaboneros, or the bearers of all the other names and titles that are always in the mouth of the boys and common people
Don Quixote by Cervantes, Miguel View in context
I did not, of course, maintain friendly relations with my comrades and soon was at loggerheads with them, and in my youth and inexperience I even gave up bowing to them, as though I had cut off all relations.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
There are the prospectuses that couldn't be distributed, and the architect's plans and estimates, and the whole correspondence which set everybody at loggerheads and ended in a dispute, all down together in that corner, behind the packing-cases.
The Woman in White by Collins, Wilkie View in context
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