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Idioms and Phrases
Fight, either verbally or physically. For example, At every policy meeting the two vice-presidents crossed swords . This phrase alludes to the ancient form of combat using swords. Also see at sword's point .Discover More
Example Sentences
The New Mitt, who has discarded his frontrunner Too-Bain-to-Deign strategy to cross swords more eagerly with his opponents.
He was a servant and a lackey, and the punctilious gentlemen opposed to him were not inclined to cross swords with him.
Bold as he was of speech and bearing, he never ventured to cross swords with Mr. FitzJesse.
Neville crossed glances with the priest as men cross swords.
What kind of a woman could she be, this Shirley Green, to dare cross swords with a man whose power was felt in two hemispheres?
Let us now turn to Frontenac, who was soon to cross swords with Perrot of Montreal.
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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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