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

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

From Slate • May 7, 2026

Economists have been at each other’s throats ever since.

From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 23, 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

For him to warm up to me after years of being at each other’s throats just because we’d been forced together?

From "Glitch" by Laura Martin