| 释义 |
at loggerheads in violent dispute or disagreement 激烈争论, 不和： councillors were at loggerheads with the government over the grant allocation. 在专用拨款的分配问题上, 议员们和政府争论激烈。 [ORIGIN: possibly a use of loggerhead in the late 17th-cent. sense long-handled iron instrument for heating liquids and tar, perhaps wielded as a weapon.] |