be locked in battle / combat / dispute etc

be locked in battle / combat / dispute etc to be involved in a long, serious argument or fight with someone卷入斗争/战斗/争论等之中:•They are now locked in a bitter custody battle over the three children.他们现在陷入了一场苦战，争夺三个孩子的监护权。

• slopingly
• systemic circulation
• P.Eng.
• Ophiomyxidae
• fasten
• maximizing
• millisite
• northerns
• low-frequency
• utter bar
• gnieznoes
• indemnity
• lenticel
• prismatic compass
• coria
• flatlings
• Faeroese
• neuromyasthenia
• hard rock
• carcass trade
• Alexanderson antenna
• sea-offer's-cabbage
• implement
• yogis
• monogrammatic
• saint pauls
• spirochaetae
• would try the patience of Job
• dirty great/big
• paynim
• no flowers
• check sb/sth↔out
• Apiezon
• at the furthest
• driftest
• electrolytically
• depopularized
• Luddites
• uptrends
• Ohm, Georg Simon
• lumened
• oenochoes
• lipblock
• tupping
• plasticizer
• sit on thorns
• whistle-stop
• Mach-Zehnder Interferometers
• malimprinting
• fluorplastic
• sound heads
• Hecatonchires
• imidic
• nitrite
• have something, nothing, etc. to say for yourself
• hematozoa
• hanaper
• muscatel
• dolomitises
• go astray
• frilled lizard
• hot rock
• do with
• gerund
• higher critic
• bemusements
• electrophoretic
• withstands
• archin(e)
• travel document
• deaminating
• piezometric surface
• germanite
• I must / I'd better be getting along
• anastomotic ulcer
• obtainer
• Airdrie
• take an occasion by the forelock
• fascicular
• change
• cryobank
• sourcings
• slogans
• octa-
• port congestion surcharges
• paratrooper
• potherb mallow
• as much
• bean paste
• juxtapositions
• Guelph
• heavy hitters
• autodeme
• Zech
• on one footing
• chastity
• pepper tree
• aluminum alloys
• hemotropic
• get the better of sb/sth