Even within the PLO the different factions are often at loggerheads and maneuver to gain the upper hand.
Money laundering had now become a political issue, and Mexican and U.S. officials remained at loggerheads.
President Mahmoud Abbas and Prime Minister Salam Fayyad are at loggerheads over how to form a Palestinian state.
In the next two years, the Republicans and Democrats will often be at loggerheads, mired in the gridlock of divided government.
As to the possibility, however, the authorities are at loggerheads.
Italy was at loggerheads with Austria, her ally, and about to break.
She had, however, a strong will, and was invariably at loggerheads with others.
He and the village have been at loggerheads about the Institute, I believe.
Well, my dear fellow, we shall not come to loggerheads about that.
For the preceding twenty hours he had been at loggerheads with the crew.
1580s, "stupid person, blockhead," perhaps from dialectal logger "heavy block of wood" + head (n.). Later it meant "a thick-headed iron tool" (1680s), a type of cannon shot, a type of turtle (1650s). Loggerheads "fighting, fisticuffs" is from 1670s, but the exact notion is uncertain, perhaps it suggests the heavy tools used as weapons. The phrase at loggerheads "in disagreement" is first recorded 1670s.
