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Перевод: ссориться, быть в ссоре, конфликтовать, быть на ножах.
Стилистическая окраска: фраза общеупотребительная
Происхождение фразы: По данным сайта «The Phrase Finder», данное выражение возникло в Великобритании. Изолированно слово «loggerhead» может иметь несколько различных значений: «головастая морская черепаха», птица «американский сорокопут». Используется также как ругательство в значении «дубина», «олух». «loggerhead» в этом смысле употреблено, в частности, в произведении У. Шекспира «Бесплодные усилия любви» (1588 год) (читайте о Новоанглийском периоде в истории развития английского языка здесь, – ред.):
«Ah you whoreson logger-head, you were borne to doe me shame» (Ах ты, тупой ублюдок! Родился мне на срам! – ред.).
В английском языке и сейчас существует ругательство «block-head» (block – балка, head – голова, – ред.) и слово «logger-head» было его абсолютным аналогом, так как в старые времена «logger» – это был деревянный брус, к которому привязывали лошадь, чтобы она не убежала.
В 17 веке возникло новое значение слова «loggerhead», так называли металлический сельскохозяйственный инструмент с длинным череном. Его использовали иногда не по назначению – как оружие. Судя по всему, так и начали говорить «at loggerheads».
Первое употребление «at loggerheads» в письменном источнике отмечено в произведении Френсиса Киркмена «English Rogue», 1680 год. Стоит также отметить, что имя «Loggerheads» носят три маленьких городка в Великобритании. Каждый из них претендует на роль места, где впервые возникло выражение «at loggerheads». К сожалению, сейчас нельзя бесспорно доказать или опровергнуть ни чьи заявления по этому поводу. Но твердо установлено, что названия всех трех городов появились уже после возникновения фразы «at loggerheads».
be at loggerheads
To be in conflict. A «logger» is a 16th-century term for a block of wood, so a «loggerhead» is a blockhead or fool. They are at loggerheads over the best way to lead the committee.
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. © 2022 Farlex, Inc, all rights reserved.
at loggerheads, to be
To disagree, dispute, or quarrel. A logger was a heavy wooden block, and one meaning of “loggerhead” is “blockhead,” a stupid person or dolt. Possibly this meaning led to the phrase “at loggerheads,” with the idea that only dolts would engage in a quarrel. Shakespeare used the word as an adjective in The Taming of the Shrew (4.1): “You loggerheaded and unpolish’d grooms.” The full current expression appeared in the late seventeenth century.
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The Dictionary of Clichés by Christine Ammer Copyright © 2013 by Christine Ammer
- at loggerheads
- at loggerheads, to be
- loggerhead
- be at loggerheads with (one) (over something)
- at loggerheads with (someone)
- at loggerheads over (something)
- fool
- blockhead
- every fool thing
- be on in years
- to be at loggerheads
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иметь резкие разногласия, быть в ссоре
Now they are at loggerheads. — Сейчас они в ссоре.
His expression was at loggerheads with the words. — Его вид противоречил его словам.
Англо-русский современный словарь.
2014.
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Loggerheads — Parroquia civil y pueblo del Reino Unido … Wikipedia Español
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Loggerheads, Denbighshire — Loggerheads is a village in Denbighshire, Wales on the River Alyn , a tributary of the River Dee.It has a country park which follows the course of the River Alyn through karstic limestone countryside including the sites of old lead mines and… … Wikipedia
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Loggerheads and Whitmore ward — is a ward in the Borough of Newcastle under Lyme. It covers, amongst others, the villages of Knighton, Loggerheads and Whitmore.The current Councillors for this ward are Philip Maskery, Freda Myatt and Brian Tomkins. All three represent the… … Wikipedia
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Loggerheads — est un film inspiré de faits réels, réalisé par Tim Kirkman. Il raconte trois histoires différentes qui commencent toutes dans les années 1999 2001, en Caroline du Nord. Sommaire 1 Synopsis 2 Distribution 3 Prix 4 … Wikipédia en Français
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Loggerheads — Log ger*heads , n. (Bot.) The knapweed. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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Loggerheads (film) — Infobox Film name = Loggerheads image size = caption = Movie poster director = Tim Kirkman producer = Gill Holland writer = Caitlin Dixon Tim Kirkman narrator = starring = Kip Pardue Michael Kelly Tess Harper Adrian Lee music = Mark Geary… … Wikipedia
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Loggerheads, Staffordshire — infobox UK place country = England latitude= 52.9192 longitude= 2.3893 official name= Loggerheads shire district= Newcastle under Lyme shire county=Staffordshire region = West Midlands constituency westminster= Stone post town= Nr. Market Drayton … Wikipedia
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loggerheads — log|ger|heads [ˈlɔgəhedz US ˈlo:gər , ˈla: ] n [Date: 1800 1900; Origin: loggerhead stupid person, large head, type of heavy tool (16 20 centuries), from logger block of wood (16 18 centuries) (probably from LOG1) + head] be at loggerheads (with… … Dictionary of contemporary English
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loggerheads — [[t]lɒ̱gə(r)hed, AM lɔ͟ːg [/t]] PHRASE: usu v link PHR, oft PHR with n If two or more people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly with each other. For months dentists and the health department have been at loggerheads over… … English dictionary
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loggerheads — noun be at loggerheads (with sb) if two people or groups are at loggerheads, they disagree very strongly: Clare s at loggerheads with her boss over the new working hours … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
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loggerheads — n. at loggerheads with ( in disagreement with ) * * * at loggerheads with ( in disagreement with ) … Combinatory dictionary
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be at loggerheads — иметь резкие разногласия; быть не в ладах; быть на ножах
to be at loggerheads — ссориться
be at loggerheads with — быть в натянутых отношениях с
at loggerheads with smb. — в ссоре с кем-л.
to be at loggerheads with smb. — ссориться /пререкаться/ с кем-л.
set a country at loggerheads with another country — поссорить одну страну с другой
to set people by the ears / at variance / at loggerheads — ссорить, натравливать людей друг на друга
be at war / loggerheads — враждовать
set at variance / loggerheads — рассорить
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Loggerhead was an established term for blockhead by 1600. Shakespeare uses loggerhead or loggerheaded four times in his plays. From The Taming of the Shrew (by 1592):
Petruchio. Here, sir! here, sir! here, sir! here sir!/You logger-headed and unpolish’d grooms!/What, no attendance? no regard? no duty?/Where is the foolish knave I sent before?
From Romeo and Juliet (by 1595):
Capulet. Make haste, make haste. [Exit 1 Serv.]—Sirrah, fetch drier logs;/Call Peter, he will show thee where they are.
2 Servant. I have a head, sir, that will find out logs,/And never trouble Peter for the matter. [Exit.
Capulet. ‘Mass and well said; A merry whoreson! ha,/Thou shalt be logger-head. — Good faith, ’tis day:
From Love’s Labour’s Lost (mid-1590s):
Biron. [To Costard] Ah, you whoreson loggerhead! you were born to do me shame.
From Henry IV, Part 1 (1597):
Poins. Where hast been, Hal?
Prince Henry. With three or four loggerheads, amongst three or four score hogsheads.
Earlier still is the term log-headed. From Richard Edwards, Damon and Pythias (1564):
Aristippus. … What crying out, what cursing is there within of Carisophus,/Because he accused Damon to King Dionysius!/Even now he came whining and crying into the court for the nonce,/Showing that one Onaphets had broke his knave’s sconce./Which strange name when they heard, every man laughed heartily,/And I by myself scanned his name secretly;/For well I knew it was some mad-headed child/That invented this name, that the log-headed knave might be beguiled.
The notion of being «at loggerheads» was earlier expressed in the phrases «to come to loggerheads» or «to fall to loggerheads.» The first instance of this phrase, according to John Farmer & W.E. Henley, Slang and Its Analogues, volume 4 (1896)‚ which is the source of many of my references here—is from Charles Cotton, Scarronnides, Or, Virgil Travestie (by 1670):
The first place after this vagary/He lighted on was Dido‘s Dairy;/Whence he Æneas soon did spie,/Ord’ring his Highness Husbandry:/He took upon him as her Spouse,/And vapour’d like the Man o’ th’ House;/For all that time, as’t came to pass,/In Quarrell high engag’d he was,/And ready in hi fumigation,/(As Histories do make relation)/To fall to Logger-heads, as’t appears,/With a few sawcy Carpenters,/Who building were an House of Ease,/For Dido in necessities,/They would not follow his advice,/(As workmen still are overwise)/Which made him foam, and flirt out spittle,/Because they made the holes too little.
Abel Boyer, Dictionaire Royal: Anglois–Francois, volume 2 (1722) has this brief note about «to fall to loggerheads»:
To fall to Loggerheads, (to go together by the Ears, to Fight)
And a number of subsequent dictionaries, including William Perry, The Synonymous, Etymological, and Pronouncing English Dictionary (1805), give this version:
To go or fall to loggerheads, to scuffle, to fight without weapons.
The first instance of «at loggerheads» that Farmer & Henley identifies is from an 1846 issue of [Punch]:
‘F. M. the Duke of Wellington will let Mr. Punch have the earliest intimation of anything definite being come to.’ As we have not heard from his grace. … we can only presume that the ministers were up to the last moment at loggerheads.
The phrase also arises in Anne Baker, Glossary of Northamptonshire Words and Phrases (1854):
LOGGERGEAD. A blockhead. [Quotation from George Farquhar, Sir Henry Wildair (1701), omitted]
- When relatives are disagreeing over property or other things, it is frequently said «they are all at loggerheads together.» [A different quotation from Farquhar, Sir Henry Wildair, again omitted; it involves the phrase «fall to loggerheads,» not «at loggerheads.»]