at swords' points

at swords' points
{adj. phr.} Ready to start fighting; very much opposed to each; other hostile; quarreling. * /The dog's barking kept the Browns at swords' points with their neighbors for months./ * /The mayor and the reporter were always at swords' points./

Dictionary of American idioms. 2013.

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