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What is "butting heads"? Is there any synonyms?

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Rebecca

Great question. To "butt heads" is a very common idiom. It is used to mean that people are in conflict or disagree strongly with each other in some area. As such the synonyms you could say in the case of this clip, would be "disagreeing". Ex: My brother and my dad always butt heads when it comes to politics. Ex: My brother and my dad always disagree when it comes to politics.

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