at grips
English
Prepositional phrase
at grips
- Fighting; engaged in a confrontation.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, Sydney: Ure Smith, published 1962, page 140:
- No doubt of it, Edmund was at grips with that bumptious little hairy dog. They were going it at the very top note of sadistic fury, screaming and snip-snapping in such a lightning mixture of black and white murder that the eye could not follow it.