at cross purposes

at cross purposes
{adv. phr.} With opposing meanings or aims; with opposing effect or result; with aims which hinder or get in each other's way. * /Tom's parents acted at cross purposes in advising him; his father wanted him to become a doctor; but his mother wanted him to become a minister./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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