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up against
Idioms and Phrases
Contending or confronted with, as in I'm up against a strong opponent in this election . This idiom is also put as up against it , which means “in serious difficulty, especially in desperate financial straits.†For example, When the collection agency called again, we knew we were up against it . [Late 1800s]Example Sentences
But that history is constantly being readjusted and reconfigured depending on the narrator’s state of mind and the different versions they’re confronted with when they bump up against other people’s memories and narratives.
As you might have imagined, not every one of the more than 9,000 residents of the 55-and-older community is lining up against Trump and Musk, although one resident cruises the grounds in a golf cart that sports a big laminated sign that lists the “Early Warning Signs of Fascism.â€
“We’ve got to be careful not to do the same thing. And I think that these elections are going to be proxies, or almost like weather devices for figuring out what kind of storm we’re going to be up against next year.â€
Jack says going up against a company like Meta, which is worth more than a trillion dollars, doesn't feel like a fight he can take on alone.
Some have sold their cars or found ways to speak up against him with bumper stickers.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
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