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.

   • 1881, Lyman L. Palmer, History of Napa and Lake Counties:

     In religion their thoughts ran in widely different channels, and in politics they were at antipodes.