What is "at loggerheads"

Usage examples of "at loggerheads".

The CDF and its offspring, the PSS, seemed to be at loggerheads as often as they cooperated with each other.

After two years of talk, the American and British staffs remained at loggerheads: the Americans adamant for an all-out smash into France in 1944, the British holding out for less risky operations in the Balkans and the eastern Mediterranean.

But hasten, for if Gast and Goryon are ever at loggerheads again, I'll not vouch for how much of the cantrev will be left!

At a moot-place near Cluggach I saw fifty men at loggerheads, shouting each other down, and often laying hands to their swords.

For a year he was in charge of all military intelligence in Algeria, but he was always at loggerheads with the brasshats.

McFay kept his thoughts off his face, concerned that Struan let himself be at loggerheads with this much older and more experienced man, and saddened that Norbert's reply had not been part of Struan's opening salvo, and disgusted that he had been kept unaware of the real reason for the meeting so had not had an opportunity to give some advice beforehand.

Given the tension with the PRH, setting him at loggerheads -- further at loggerheads, I should say -- with Her Majesty's Navy was a stupid thing for any officer to do.

Hence its long occupation by themilitary, when territorial opinions had differed and the two Scandinaviancountries had been at loggerheads.

Sabine Secundus and Sabine Prime had long been at loggerheads over some obscure religious matter, and it looked like the conflict might erupt in violence any moment.

A fine thing it would be if the people of the clock town were to be at loggerheads every moment with everyone who called them by that name, -or the Cazoleros, Berengeneros, Ballenatos, Jaboneros, or the bearers of all the other names and titles that are always in the mouth of the boys and common people!