| 词汇 | at each other's throats |
| 释义 | Idiom at each other's throats in angry disagreement.The neighbors are at each other's throats over who should repair the fence. at each other's throatsSaid of two people who are noticeably angry with each other. Those two are at each other's throats because they can't agree on how to best lead the committee. You can hear their shouting all the way down the hall! at each other's throatsArguing or fighting. For example, It was a very dramatic trial, with the prosecutor and the defense attorney constantly at each other's throats . This idiom, with its vivid image of two persons trying to strangle each other, is often applied to less physical forms of disagreement. at each other's throatsorat one another's throatsCOMMON If two people or groups are at each other's throats or at one another's throats, they are arguing in a very angry way. Their European partners were at each other's throats last night in some of the worst arguing since the Second World War. MPs are at one another's throats all the time, and it's not functioning as a very effective government. (be) at each other’s ˈthroats,(be) at one another’s ˈthroats(be) angrily fighting or arguing with each other: Within six months of their marriage, Sue and Rodney were at each other’s throats. |
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