at loggerheads

1. 1.

   in a dispute or confrontation

   “Sam and his parents were at loggerheads over the question of car privileges”

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Questions about at loggerheads

What does at loggerheads mean?

at loggerheads means "in a dispute or confrontation".

Is at loggerheads a common word?

at loggerheads is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.