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DAGGERS DRAWN

Specialty Definition: DAGGERS DRAWN

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Literature

Daggers Drawn (At). At great enmity, as if with daggers drawn and ready to rush on each other. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Synonyms within Context: DAGGERS DRAWN

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Discord

At odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.

Enmity

Adjective: inimical, unfriendly, hostile; at enmity, at variance, at daggers drawn,at open war with; up in arms against; in bad odor with.

Hate

At daggers drawn; not on speaking terms; (enmity); at loggerheads.

Opposition

In hostile array, front to front, with crossed bayonets, at daggers drawn; up in arms; resistant.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Expressions: DAGGERS DRAWN

Expressions using "DAGGERS DRAWN": at daggers drawn be at daggers drawn be at daggers drawn with smb.. Additional references.

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Modern Translation: DAGGERS DRAWN

Language Translations for "DAGGERS DRAWN"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Czech

  

hnìvat se s kým (be at daggers drawn with smb.), být na kordy (be at daggers drawn). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

olla sotakannalla (be at daggers drawn, be at enmity). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

aggersday awndray

   

Romanian

  

la cuţite (at daggers drawn), fi la cuţite (be at daggers drawn). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

på fientlig fot (at daggers drawn). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kanlı bıçaklı olmak (be at daggers drawn), can düşmanı olmak (be at daggers drawn). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Anagrams: DAGGERS DRAWN

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-a-d-d-e-g-g-n-r-r-s-w"

-4 letters: aggraded, aggrades, arranged, arranges, awarders, draggers, grandads, grangers, saggared.

-5 letters: agendas, aggrade, arrange, arrased, awarded, awarder, daggers, danders, dangers, darners, dragged, dragger, drawers, errands, gadders, ganders, gangers, garaged, garages, gardens, garners, gnarred, gnawers, graders, grandad, grander, granger, granges, naggers, rangers, redrawn, redraws, regards, rewards, saggard, seaward, snagged, swagged, swagger, swarded, wadders, waggers.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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INDEX

1. Expressions
2. Translations: Modern
3. Anagrams
4. Bibliography


  

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