at antipodes

English

Prepositional phrase

at antipodes

  1. In direct opposition.
    • 1910, The Bookman, volume 31, page 367:
      Mark Twain was not a humourist in the sense that Lamb was — the two were at antipodes.
    • 1881, Lyman L. Palmer, History of Napa and Lake Counties:
      In religion their thoughts ran in widely different channels, and in politics they were at antipodes.
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