at sixes and sevens

adverb

Roget 59: irregularly etc. adj.; by fits, by fits and snatches, by fits and starts; pellmell; higgledy-piggledy; helter-skelter, harum-scarum; in a ferment; at sixes and sevens, at cross-purposes; upside down etc. 218.    ... show more

adjective

Roget 713: discordant; disagreeing etc. v.; out of tune, ajar, on bad terms, dissentient etc. 489; unreconciled, unpacified; contentious etc. 720.    quarrelsome, unpacific^†; gladiatorial, controversial, polemic, disputatious; factious; litigious, litigant; pettifogging.    at odds, at loggerheads, at daggers drawn, at variance, at issue, at cross purposes, at sixes and sevens, at feud, at high words; up in arms, together by the ears, in hot water, embroiled.    torn, disunited.    ... show more

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