英语词汇lock horns的起源、历史背景-英语词源词典

词汇	lock horns
词源	lock horns. Possibly New Englanders who witnessed moose fiercely battling over a female, their massive horns locked to- gether, invented this expression for “a violent clash.” There is no evidence of this in the first American literary use of the phrase in 1839, however. When Swinburne used the phrase in 1865, he spoke of a heifer and her mate locking horns, which could also be the source of the expression.
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