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Become embroiled in conflict, as in At the town meeting Kate and Steve locked horns over increasing the property tax . This expression alludes to how stags and bulls use their horns to fight one another. [First half of 1800s]

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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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