at each other's throats

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Arguing or fighting. For example, It was a very dramatic trial, with the prosecutor and the defense attorney constantly at each other's throats. This idiom, with its vivid image of two persons trying to strangle each other, is often applied to less physical forms of disagreement.

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Each day she resolved, "To-morrow I will tell Felipe;" and when to-morrow came, she put it off again.
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Some were even re-arrested for the same nefarious purpose, and the daily papers published their names on each occasion.
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This city stands upon almost two equal parts on each side the river that passes through.
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Done, says he, why let fifty of our men advance, and flank them on each wing.
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Each religion claims that its own Bible is the direct revelation of God, and is the only true Bible teaching the only true faith.
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