at cross-purposes

at cross purposes

In conflict with or in opposition to. You will never find success if you continue to work at cross purposes with your teammates.

at cross-purposes

with opposing viewpoints; with goals that interfere with each other. We are arguing at cross-purposes. We aren't even discussing the same thing. Bill and Tom are working at cross-purposes. They'll never get the job done right.

McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.

at cross-purposes

Pursuing conflicting or contrary goals, usually unintentionally: We're working at cross-purposes.

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.

See also:

at cross purposes
be at cross purposes
be/talk at cross purposes
cross purpose
purpose
divide
cross the Great Divide
cross the big pond
cross up
cross up someone

References in periodicals archive

A hoard that includes directors who have no relationship with a CEO or other directors, who may lack critical competencies and who may perceive themselves as working at cross-purposes with management would be simply unworkable.

A new assault on management

"What started as rehabilitation for heart attack patients has progressed to early detection of heart disease, and now, to recognizing that the apparently healthy may not be that well and the focus must be prevention." Despite advances in our understanding of heart disease, American culture still works at cross-purposes to health and well-being.

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The document would work at cross-purposes since the type of content needed by these two audiences would conflict.

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Well it may be that Coppe, Fox, and Winstanley were refashioning this idiom of rage; it is nonetheless true that they resorted to it even when they were at cross-purposes with its more orthodox applications.

Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism & The Writing of Royalism 1628-1660. (Reviews)

In Baltimore Opera's second offering this season, a production of Tosca, Andrea Licata's conducting produced almost funereal tempi that dissipated much of the dramatic intensity of Puccini's operatic melodrama and worked at cross-purposes with former Opera de Montreal general director Bernard Uzan's otherwise well-pointed stage direction.

In Baltimore Opera. (Opera in Review)

Fortunately, sensitive curating of the individual segments proved more powerful than their overall tendency to work at cross-purposes.

"MEDIA_CITY SEOUL 2000"

The executives are well meaning; they're just accidentally working at cross-purposes. Matrix management is singularly designed to be debilitating.

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Furthermore, our various interests often conflict and, since it is hardly rational to remain at cross-purposes with one's self, we revise and develop our interests, trying to achieve a more harmonious way of life.

The Rationality of an Illusion

Constitution's commandment to allow interstate commerce to flow unimpeded have been at cross-purposes. In South Central Bell Telephone Co.

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词组	at cross-purposes
释义	at cross-purposes at cross purposes In conflict with or in opposition to. You will never find success if you continue to work at cross purposes with your teammates. See also: cross, purpose Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. at cross-purposes with opposing viewpoints; with goals that interfere with each other. We are arguing at cross-purposes. We aren't even discussing the same thing. Bill and Tom are working at cross-purposes. They'll never get the job done right. McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. at cross-purposes Pursuing conflicting or contrary goals, usually unintentionally: We're working at cross-purposes. American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. See also: at cross purposes be at cross purposes be/talk at cross purposes cross purpose purpose divide cross the Great Divide cross the big pond cross up cross up someone References in periodicals archive A hoard that includes directors who have no relationship with a CEO or other directors, who may lack critical competencies and who may perceive themselves as working at cross-purposes with management would be simply unworkable. A new assault on management "What started as rehabilitation for heart attack patients has progressed to early detection of heart disease, and now, to recognizing that the apparently healthy may not be that well and the focus must be prevention." Despite advances in our understanding of heart disease, American culture still works at cross-purposes to health and well-being. Member profile: Noel Nequin The document would work at cross-purposes since the type of content needed by these two audiences would conflict. Designing better documents: information design professionals attempt to understand what makes documents usable and to apply that knowledge in preparing functional documents and records Well it may be that Coppe, Fox, and Winstanley were refashioning this idiom of rage; it is nonetheless true that they resorted to it even when they were at cross-purposes with its more orthodox applications. Representing Revolution in Milton and his Contemporaries: Religion, Politics, and Polemics in Radical Puritanism & The Writing of Royalism 1628-1660. (Reviews) In Baltimore Opera's second offering this season, a production of Tosca, Andrea Licata's conducting produced almost funereal tempi that dissipated much of the dramatic intensity of Puccini's operatic melodrama and worked at cross-purposes with former Opera de Montreal general director Bernard Uzan's otherwise well-pointed stage direction. In Baltimore Opera. (Opera in Review) Fortunately, sensitive curating of the individual segments proved more powerful than their overall tendency to work at cross-purposes. "MEDIA_CITY SEOUL 2000" The executives are well meaning; they're just accidentally working at cross-purposes. Matrix management is singularly designed to be debilitating. Leadership In The Electronic Storage Industry Furthermore, our various interests often conflict and, since it is hardly rational to remain at cross-purposes with one's self, we revise and develop our interests, trying to achieve a more harmonious way of life. The Rationality of an Illusion Constitution's commandment to allow interstate commerce to flow unimpeded have been at cross-purposes. In South Central Bell Telephone Co. For whom the South Central Bell tolls
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