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lock horns
verb as in fight with
Example Sentences
So when the experts lock horns, jurors toss all of their testimony out the window.
Judge and attorneys would frequently lock horns; and sometimes their disputes ended violently.
But she gives out a kind of a smile, and her hand and mine lock horns, and I sets down by the bed—mud and spurs and chaps and all.
Some day, popsy-wops, that soldier will drop in at our ranch and lock horns with you on the Japanese question.
Indications multiplied that before long the two great armies would lock horns, and prove which was the best man of the two.
It wouldn't do to lock horns with this self-satisfied despot; at any rate, not now.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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