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View synonyms for come up against

come up against



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Idioms and Phrases

Encounter, especially an obstacle or problem. For example, I've never come up against anything I can't handle , or Dealing with Malcolm is like coming up against a brick wall .
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Example Sentences

How delicious it is when when pulp-fiction, True Romance notions of “solid husband” come up against lived lives.

Seems as if K. was beginning to come up against those political forces which have ever been a British Commander's bane.

Whenever I come up against Cupid, experience has taught me to retire deferentially, and wait until the love-fever has abated.

I am therefore come up against thee in mine own right, even to recover mine own inheritance out of thine hand.

Here again we come up against the morality of man; will he continue to poison himself with absinthe or will he abstain?

A flat soft iron plate armature is hinged so as to come up against the pole pieces when attracted.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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