Significados de cross-purpose em inglês

Antipholus is also now reassured about his gold, and the earlier cross-purpose seems only a jest.

He could learn nothing but cross-purpose.

Both clearly see the strange, romantic threads restraining them within coercive limits, interdicting helpful alliances while leading all at divergent angles of cross-purpose.

It was very amusing to hear her and Hope talk at cross-purposes.

At the same time, the Federal Reserve board was acting at cross-purposes.

Something about the possibility of us being at cross-purposes at some future time.

We invited you here because it's clear we are all working at cross-purposes.

But he was an old soldier in the game of words and cross-purposes.

One that won't hold up if Serenity comes at cross-purposes with the Empire.

But despite moments of perfect harmony, frequently the two elements seemed at cross-purposes.

It is not a question of controversies, but rather of cross-purposes.

As a matter of fact, he and I are very much at cross-purposes.

I had only a sense of grey desolation, of hopeless cross-purposes.

Wintergreen was a snide little punk who enjoyed working at cross-purposes.

Because there's too much confusion already-toomuch petty jealousy and working at cross-purposes.

How is it that we can have been playing at these cross-purposes, Arthur?