| 词汇 | lock horns with |
| 释义 | Idiom lock horns withlock horns (with someone) to argue with someone in a very determined way.In her new movie she plays a middle-aged college student who locks horns with her professor. Etymology: based on the literal meaning of two fighting animals such as deer whose horns lock together lock horns with, toTo engage in a fight, to clash. This transfer from the battles of stags, bulls, and other beasts that use their horns to fight is surprisingly recent, dating only from the nineteenth century. W. T. Porter used it in A Quarter Race in Kentucky (1846): “We locked horns without a word, thar all alone, and I do think we fit [fought] an hour.” |
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