crossed swords

Roberto Martinez, who crossed swords with Clarke during his time in charge of Belgium, once again has an embarrassment of riches from which to select, with his team emerging from a keenly contested battle with Croatia on match-day one.

He used a crossed swords emoji to hammer home his point, and followers responded with talk of burning down courthouses and rioting.

But Mr. Dennett, who never shirked controversy, often crossed swords with other famed scholars and thinkers.

Instead of crossed swords, a butcher’s knife, a cleaver and a honing steel cross behind a crest with paintings of a wheel of cheese, a lobster, a bottle of wine, a head of cattle.

"Every time I hear you I feel a little bit dumber," Haley said after they crossed swords about the app during a previous encounter in September.