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.
    • Lyman L. Palmer, History of Napa and Lake Counties (page 475)
      In religion their thoughts ran in widely different channels, and in politics they were at antipodes.
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