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What does at daggers drawn mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word at daggers drawn? Here's what it means.

Prepositional phrase
  1. In a state of open hostility.
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Even if your chairman could insist on a lottery, any system that puts colleagues at daggers drawn is imperfect.
The British critics of The Times, Spectator and Observer were at daggers drawn.
You know that two people are at daggers drawn when they make a direct statement claiming to be united.
The ombudsman is already at daggers drawn with the former chief constable over the handling of the bomb inquiry.
Poetry and life as people live and breathe it need not necessarily be at daggers drawn.
Yet the friends who have known each other for nearly 40 years are at daggers drawn.

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