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What does lock horns mean?

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Verb
  1. (idiomatic) To come into conflict.
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Rather than lock horns with preservationists, he embraced his task with fetishistic glee.
Come June, it will be time to lock horns with Group F opponents Slovakia, Paraguay and world champions Italy.
But what Mann needs is an opposite number for his heroes: another equal-and-opposite hombre to lock horns with.
Fearful to confront, because of our own fears, perchance we find ourselves looking into a mirror and are terrified to lock horns with our own conflicting thoughts.
Mr. Ferrell is not the only celebrity to lock horns with Wall Street recently.
It will be a marvellous occasion when the counties lock horns on Saturday week, and expect a huge crowd to be there bedecked in blue and white.

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