| The parties to contested actions are often at daggers drawn, and the litigious process serves to exacerbate the hostility between them. |
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| The ombudsman is already at daggers drawn with the former chief constable over the handling of the bomb inquiry. |
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| They can obviously smell the fact that we're at daggers drawn with the Treasury. |
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| You know that two people are at daggers drawn when they make a direct statement claiming to be united. |
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| It's been an open secret in media circles for some years that the two giants of Sydney commercial radio were at daggers drawn. |
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| For some reason, right throughout that tour, Alexander and Gilchrist were at daggers drawn. |
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| The Hunting Bill is before the House of Lords, and the metropolitan middle classes and the rural population are at daggers drawn. |
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| The British critics of The Times, Spectator and Observer were at daggers drawn. |
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| Jack and Jim, who's extended his trip to the States, are at daggers drawn. |
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| Poetry and life as people live and breathe it need not necessarily be at daggers drawn. |
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| Yet the friends who have known each other for nearly 40 years are at daggers drawn. |
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| Even if your chairman could insist on a lottery, any system that puts colleagues at daggers drawn is imperfect. |
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| Nor does it help improve relations between the federal government and first nations, who have been at daggers drawn for a month and a half. |
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| Britain had long been at daggers drawn with the Boer republics of Transvaal and Orange Free State, located in present-day South Africa. |
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| His two most loyal cabinet ministers are now at daggers drawn. |
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