at each other's throats

Idioms  

1. 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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Example Sentences

Chris and Matt, who have been at each other’s throats, will be shipping out together, forced to reconcile as newfound family members.

From Los Angeles Times

But at the end of each day, people who have been at each other’s throats during debates, come together in worship.

From BBC

“People who were just marching together for Black lives are now at each other’s throats.”

From New York Times

While the brothers work together for survival, they are also at each other’s throats, taking turns ruefully betraying each other, leading to imprisonment, exile and worse.

From New York Times

If a grown man and his mother are still somehow at each other’s throats or in each other’s business, that’s pathology.

From New York Times