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

They’re already at each other’s throats with HOA-style grievances.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 28, 2026

I do think that they’ve always been at each other’s throats.

From Slate • May 7, 2026

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

From BBC • Nov. 13, 2024

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 • Feb. 27, 2024

“Actually they probably just want to get us all stirred up and confused and at each other’s throats so that nothing bad or organized could happen around here.”

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols