at odds | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)Indisagreement;conflicting.Synonyms:at loggerheads,at sixes and sevens,at varianceThe witness’s statement seems to beat oddswith the evidence—not a good sign for the prosecutor.c.1603–1606(date written), [William Shakespeare],[…]His True Chronicle Historie of the Life and Death of King Lear and His Three Daughters.[…](First Quarto), London:[…]Nathaniel Butter,[…], published1608,→OCLC,[Act I, scene iii]:By day and night he vvrongs me, / Euery houre he flaſhes into one groſſe crime or other / That ſets vs allat ods, ile not indure it,[…]1722(indicated as1721), [Daniel Defoe],The Fortunes and Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders, &c.[…], London:[…]W[illiam Rufus]Chetwood,[…]; and T. Edling,[…], published1722,→OCLC,page186:[I] began to beat oddsvvith myſelf vvhether to be glad or ſorry;[…]1842December –1844July,Charles Dickens, “The Reader is Brought into Communication with Some Professional Persons, and Sheds a Tear over the Filial Piety of Good Mr. Jonas”, inThe Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit, London:Chapman and Hall,[…], published1844,→OCLC,page237:In the passage they encountered Mr. Mould the undertaker: a little elderly gentleman, bald, and in a suit of black; with a note-book in his hand, a massive gold watch-chain dangling from his fob, and a face in which a queer attempt at melancholy wasat oddswith a smirk of satisfaction;[…]1940, Zane Grey, chapter 1, in30,000 on the Hoof, Roslyn, N.Y.: Walter J. Black,→OCLC,page 5:At Pleasant Valley sheepmen and cattlemen wereat oddsover the grazing. Sooner or later they would clash.2017,BioWare,Mass Effect: Andromeda, Redwood City, Calif.: Electronic Arts,→OCLC, PC, scene: Kett: Primus Codex entry:Evidence now proves that the Primus and the Archon areat odds. Investigations show that the Primus disapproves of the Archon's single-minded interest in Remnant technology, believing it to be a distraction from the kett's attempts to conquer Heleus.

Examples:

EN: Coleman and Thorpe were at odds with the Cameron girl.
ES: Los dos estaban enfrentados por esa muchacha.
EN: It has been established that the defendant and the victim were at odds.
ES: Se ha establecido que acusada y víctima estaban enfrentadas.
EN: And pity it is you've lived at odds so long.
ES: Es una lástima que viváis en desavenencia.
EN: And then today being my birthday I happen to glance at my horoscope: "In domestic matters you display a lack of willpower which is at odds with your true character.
ES: Y hoy, siendo mi cumpleaños, miré por casualidad mi horóscopo: "En asuntos domésticos muestra falta de fuerza de voluntad, algo que no corresponde con su verdadero carácter.
EN: And if his task was at odds with your presence?
ES: ¿Y si su tarea fuera ahora incompatible con su presencia? ¿Lo ve?
EN: - Are at odds with each other again?
ES: - ¿Qué? ¿Otra vez enfadados?
EN: Almost at odds with morning, which is which.
ES: Riñendo ya con la mañana. ¿Cuál vencerá?
EN: Charity is not at odds with appetite.
ES: La caridad no está reñida con el apetito. - ¿Quiere alguien té?
EN: He sleeps at odds hours and holds himself more and more apart, a lonely man.
ES: Duerme durante el día y cada vez parece estar más alejado. Es un hombre solitario.
EN: that all without desert have frowned on me - dukes, earls, lords, gentlemen... indeed, of all. I do not know that Englishman alive with whom my soul is any jot at odds... more than the infant that is born tonight.
ES: Duques, condes, lores, caballeros, a todos, de veras, no conozco inglés vivo con quien tenga mi alma más discordia... que por el niño que nazca esta noche.
EN: Jean Valjean, criminal at odds with authority, ex-convict.
ES: Jean Valjean, culpable de quebrantar la ley, soy yo.
EN: Your dad and the town always been at odds with one another?
ES: Su padre y el pueblo siempre han estado en desacuerdo?
EN: I thought that politics was not at odds with consciousness.
ES: Yo creía que la política no estaba reñida con la conciencia.
EN: [Do you remember its warlike mayor...] [... who's always at odds with the priest? ]
ES: Y recuerdan a su alcalde belicoso ... .. que esta siempre peleando con el parroco.
EN: It doesn't do to start out in the ministry with one of your most important parishioners at odds with you.
ES: No conviene iniciar el ministerio teniendo en contra a un feligrés así.

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