Quiz: "loggerheads" or "knuckleheads"?
22.09.2010
The correct answer is: loggerheads
"Management are at loggerheads over the proposed reforms."
When two people or more are at loggerheads over a topic, they strongly disagree. The origin of this expression is unclear. According to The Oxford Dictionary of English, however, a loggerhead may have been a kind of weapon used in the 17th century.
be at loggerheads over sth. = miteinander wegen einer Sache im Clinch liegen
By the way, a loggerhead turtle is the world's largest hard-shelled turtle.
A knucklehead is a stupid person.
knucklehead = Holzkopf
im Clinch (miteinander) liegen
wegen einer Sache
unechte Karett-(Meeres-)Schildkröte
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