Their opinions are so different that never the twain shall meet.
never the twain shall meet
idiomUsed to emphasize that two subjects are so different that they cannot coexist or agree with each other.
Origin
first recorded 19th c.Coined by the English author and poet Rudyard Kipling (1865–1936) in his poem The Ballad of East and West (1889).
The two political parties have such opposing views on the budget that it seems never the twain shall meet.
Despite their shared history, the two scholars held such fundamentally incompatible philosophies that it was clear never the twain shall meet in their academic conclusions.
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