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JCDenton Posted 18 years ago
Vocabulary

butting heads up??

0Hi my EnglishForward friends, 02br
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00I'm again doing some translation stuff to improve my english and I came across to slang phrase,02br
00which I have no idea what it means..:-(.That phrase is 01i01b00butting heads up02b00 01b00against02b02i01b00..02b00 I didn't have a problem 02br
00with finding of the examples, but they didn't help me...Please in what situation is this slang phrase02br
00being used???02br
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00Examples:02br
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00- 01i00It’s like 01b00butting heads up02b00 against a brick wall.02i02br
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00- 01i00I think what we're 01b00butting heads up02b00 against is a philosophical difference in how C++ treats objects and Obj-C treats them...02i02br
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00Many thanks in advance and thanks for this amazing forum!02br
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00with regards02br
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00JCD0-
  

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0It is informal for 01i00confronting an almost unsurmountable obstacle02i00, and you can use it as such.0-
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0Hi Mister M,02br
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00Thank you for your answer. But I'm not sure, if I get your point. So, could this phrase be paraphrased like 01i01b00deal with very difficult problem???02b02i02br
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00I'm 01i01b00butting heads up02b02i00 against your problem.....Or 01i01b00I
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0"Butting heads against each other" is an expression meaning two sides of an argument that keeps going back and forth, with no winner. 02br
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00It comes from when two goats or rams fight; heads lowered, they run into each other, banging their heads, sometimes "locking horns" (which is another expression) No one wins. They simply keep doing that until one gets tired. 02b
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0Ok, many thanks to both of you for your explanations. I get the point of that.02br
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