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at cross purposes



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Idioms and Phrases

With aims or goals that conflict or interfere with one another, as in I'm afraid the two departments are working at cross purposes . This idiom, first recorded in 1688, may have begun as a 17th-century parlor game called 鈥渃ross-purposes,鈥 in which a series of subjects (or questions) were divided from their explanations (or answers) and distributed around the room. Players then created absurdities by combining a subject taken from one person with an explanation taken from another.
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鈥淲e have a priority to house people in California and we may be working at cross purposes,鈥 she said, referring to public money going toward both raising the rent and lowering it.

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It was also a moment of alignment for Republicans who have at times been at cross purposes, like Representative Matt Gaetz of Florida, another Trump acolyte, and Kevin McCarthy, the former House speaker Mr. Gaetz and other hard right members pushed out last year.

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鈥淎nimal welfare鈥 is sometimes misused as a synonym for 鈥渁nimal rights,鈥 but in practice the two worldviews can sometimes be at cross purposes.

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The military isn鈥檛 the only institution to find itself at cross purposes with young Americans.

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鈥淕ov. Newsom is going to have to be extremely careful that what he does in the world of climate change, energy and these kinds of actually very constructive places where we do need to interact with China, don鈥檛 run at cross purposes with Washington,鈥 Schell said.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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