2020-01-14
7 分钟Hi there.
This is Harry, and welcome back to my podcast, where I try to help you to understand the english language, looking specifically at expressions, phrasal verbs, collocations, and of course, grammar aspects in english sentences.
If you have any comments or you want to contact me, you'll get the details at the end of the podcast.
So, what do I have for you in this podcast again, some expressions that I'll outline, and then I'll try to explain with examples.
So, let's get started.
The first one, at odds with.
Odds with.
So, we can be at odds with something, and we can be at odds with our boss.
We can be at odds with our family.
It means that we're not speaking the same language.
In a sense, we are not in agreement.
There's a misunderstanding, there's a falling out.
There's a disagreement.
So, he's at odds with his boss about the direction the business should take.
He's at odds with his family about the sale of the house and moving to another city they don't want to go.
He could be at odds with himself, meaning he's not really sure about what he's doing, where he's going, what direction he's taking.
So he's a little bit confused.
So he's at odds with himself.
So, at odds with means a little bit disjointed, some acrimony or some dispute, disagreement, falling out, something that is causing some element of.
Element of, well, confusion, element of an argument, some aspect like that.