Which war?
reach the top
It means that you disagree with someone; you are opposed to what they want.
Unless one of them knows Tackle, it would be a stalemate until they reach to a point of using Struggle to 'attack'.
Stalemate=cold war.
It can be. It can also be a literal command to place one foot in front of the other and walk forward. As an idiom, it means to take small steps in order to reach a goal.
Our game of chess came to a stalemate.
"Sky high" just means very high. You usually hear this as "blown sky high," which would mean either (literally) something exploded and was thrown high in the air, or (figuratively) that someone's plans were thoroughly destroyed.
The idiom "tip of my tongue" refers to the feeling of almost remembering something but not being able to recall it fully. It conveys the sensation of the word or information being just out of reach in one's memory.
what were two causes of the stalemate in the west?
Stalemate - song - was created on 2009-10-26.
Yes, a stalemate in chess is considered a draw.