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Idioms and Phrases
Also, at swords' points . Antagonistic, hostile, as in Father and son were at swords' points . Dating from the days when swords were used to settle quarrels, the idiom today generally signifies only a bitter quarrel.Advertisement
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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