loggerheads
Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
loggerhead/ˈlɒɡəhɛd/
▶noun
- 1 (also loggerhead turtle) a large-headed reddish-brown turtle of warm seas. [Caretta caretta.]
- 2 archaic a foolish person.
– phrases
at loggerheads in violent dispute or disagreement. [perh. a use of loggerhead in the 17th-cent. sense ‘long-handled iron instrument for heating liquids’ (when wielded as a weapon).]
at loggerheads in violent dispute or disagreement. [perh. a use of loggerhead in the 17th-cent. sense ‘long-handled iron instrument for heating liquids’ (when wielded as a weapon).]
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