at daggers drawn

Related to at daggers drawn: on a roll, raring to go, pillar to post

at daggers drawn

Prepared to verbally or physically fight another person or group. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. The police have had to intervene because those rival gangs have been at daggers drawn lately. The members of the committee are at daggers drawn because they cannot agree on a course of action.

daggers drawn, at

Also, with daggers drawn. About to or ready to fight, as in Are Felix and Oscar still at daggers drawn over the rent? Although daggers today are rarely if ever used to avenge an insult or issue a challenge to a duel, this idiom remains current. Its figurative use dates from about 1800.

at daggers drawn

BRITISH

If two people or groups are at daggers drawn, they are having a serious disagreement and are very angry with each other. The publishing and record divisions of the company were at daggers drawn over the simultaneous release of the book and the album. The government now finds itself at daggers drawn with the same press it had gone to such great lengths to give freedom of expression to.

at daggers drawn

in a state of bitter enmity.

The image here is of the drawing of daggers as the final stage in a confrontation before actual fighting breaks out. Although recorded in 1668 , the expression only became common from the early 19th century onwards.

词组	at daggers drawn
释义	at daggers drawn Related to at daggers drawn: on a roll, raring to go, pillar to post at daggers drawn Prepared to verbally or physically fight another person or group. Primarily heard in UK, Australia. The police have had to intervene because those rival gangs have been at daggers drawn lately. The members of the committee are at daggers drawn because they cannot agree on a course of action. See also: dagger, drawn Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. daggers drawn, at Also, with daggers drawn. About to or ready to fight, as in Are Felix and Oscar still at daggers drawn over the rent? Although daggers today are rarely if ever used to avenge an insult or issue a challenge to a duel, this idiom remains current. Its figurative use dates from about 1800. See also: dagger The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. at daggers drawn BRITISH If two people or groups are at daggers drawn, they are having a serious disagreement and are very angry with each other. The publishing and record divisions of the company were at daggers drawn over the simultaneous release of the book and the album. The government now finds itself at daggers drawn with the same press it had gone to such great lengths to give freedom of expression to. See also: dagger, drawn Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. at daggers drawn in a state of bitter enmity. The image here is of the drawing of daggers as the final stage in a confrontation before actual fighting breaks out. Although recorded in 1668 , the expression only became common from the early 19th century onwards. See also: dagger, drawn Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary See also: dagger daggers drawn, at be at daggers drawn queer bashing trade blows fight back at (someone or something) light into light into (someone or something) light into someone lash into (someone or something) References in periodicals archive Fat Boy runs afoul of Whitney, and Pat and Peggy are still at daggers drawn. SOAPwatch; YOUR TV I get on well with the younger one, but his older sister and me are at daggers drawn. NEXT WEEK'S PROBLEM .. With the election looming and with Tony Blair and Prime Minister-in-waiting Gordon Brown at daggers drawn, the play has never been more apt. Theatre: JULIUS CAESAR; BOOK IT The pair have been at daggers drawn since Tab won a pounds 30,000 diamond necklace in a raffle at a New Year's Eve party hosted by the Osbournes to celebrate their 20th wedding anniversary. OZZY WIFE BASHED IN GEM FIGHT Muhammad Sharif and Muhammad Mansha had been at daggers drawn for a long time over land. Seven injured over land dispute A YOU'VE got to ask yourself how your mum would feel if she knew her two children were at daggers drawn. Girlfriend wants to brand me with tattoo Despite being at daggers drawn with Cardiff over their breakaway fixture list with the English clubs, the Union have hatched a deal with the club to bring Sullivan on loan to the Union code. Cardiff land League star Sullivan Guests said the pair were "at daggers drawn" during Thursday's boxing night at London's Hilton Hotel. ARCHER KO'd BY TARBY AT BOXING GALA! He wondered that those who had been at daggers drawn until recently had now buried the hatchet and become friends. Sindh PML-N vice president joins PTI The firebrand, who is at daggers drawn with the PPP Co-chairman Asif Ali Zardari, never lets a chance to take a poke his former close friend go to waste. Zardari has committed political suicide, Mirza says This is the first time she has ever suggested it as, until recently, they were at daggers drawn. So he's thrilled because he dotes on his kids and hated not seeing them over Christmas. Worried he will end up in bed with his ex-wife Truth is, the self-esteeming spin doctors employed by Tony Blair and the self-esteeming Mr Simpson may be at daggers drawn politically, but they have one thing in common: a singularly high value of their own importance. Paul Routledge's column: SIMPS IS IN A SPIN Had India accepted his idea, the two countries would not have been at daggers drawn after independence. Quaid on Indo-Pak joint defence It is to be mentioned here that in recent past the two parties have been at daggers drawn amid the PTI antigovernment movement. PML-N, PTI makes alliance at least against polio So we're at daggers drawn. If it wasn't for the kids, I'd walk. Just Joan: My daughter isn't worried she's caught sex infection
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