on a collision course

on a collision course

Of a person, group, or object, on a certain path to conflict, collision, destruction, or ruin with someone or something else. The radical left-wing coalition is set to be on a collision course with the majority conservative government this January. Little did the passengers know that they were riding a train on a collision course with disaster.
See also: collision, course, on
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

on a collision course

adopting an approach that is certain to lead to conflict with another person or group.
This phrase is also used literally to mean ‘going in a direction that will lead to a violent crash with another moving object or person’.
See also: collision, course, on
Farlex Partner Idioms Dictionary
See also:
  • be on a collision course
  • it is all up with
  • it is all up with (someone or something)
  • blow (someone or something) out of the water
  • blow out of the water
  • blow somebody/something out of the water
  • blow someone out of the water
  • keep the wolf from the door
  • keep the wolf from the door, to
  • rise from the ashes
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It said both vessels were on a collision course and the navigation rules required the Sanchi to make way.
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They were set to walk out on the day Cardiff council's new food waste collections were due to start - a scheme which had set workers and bosses on a collision course.
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Reports suggest that the crew of the Russian aircraft informed Swiss air traffic controllers that they were on a collision course with another aircraft 90 seconds before impact.
Analysts to investigate mid-air collision over Germany
A Boston newspaper, reporting on the cause of a collision between a Coast Guard cutter and a freighter, quoted the USCG finding that the cutter's skipper "did not comprehend that the vessels were in a meeting situation...." Whatever happened to dependable on a collision course? What's wrong with about to collide?
Nucor's iconic leader remembered for his 'principals' in lame encomium. (Wood on Words)