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Cross swords.
When people cross swords, they argue or dispute.
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crossed swords
verb
Past of cross swords
Exact(59)
He and my mother just crossed swords.
His right hand bore a tattoo of crossed swords.
In 1967, two French politicians literally crossed swords in Neuilly.
Sonia Gandhi, the party's leader, crossed swords with him.
Yet the two men never seem to have crossed swords.
She has crossed swords with leading antagonists from all sides.
But he, too, has crossed swords with Mr. Icahn.
Ms. Neuville has crossed swords with Mr. Lachmann before.
Various journalists who have crossed swords with Cummings loathe him.
As for Patten, they have already crossed swords.
Similar(1)
Only one has the Meissen blue crossed-swords mark, which Ms. Beiny said was not uncommon.
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