at swords' points
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Yet they have long been at swords' points.
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They have been at swords' points ever since 1924 when Senator Couzens expressed hearty disapproval of Secretary Mellon's tax reduction program.
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The America's Cup races seemed at an end, for English and American yachtsmen were almost literally at swords' points.
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They are at swords' points with the Quezon-Osmena group.
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Though men may live at swords' points with each other they die in peace.
From T. De Witt Talmage As I Knew Him by Talmage, T. De Witt (Thomas De Witt)