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against all odds

not likely to happen, a slim chance Against all odds - poor weather, student pilot - we landed safely.

against the grain

against the natural way, rub the wrong way Some words go against the grain. Their spellings aren't natural.

beat your head against a stone wall

try an impossible task, work on a futile project Preventing war is like beating your head against a stone wall.

dead set against

strongly opposed to, down with She's dead set against abortion as a means of birth control.

dead set against something

determined not to do something They are dead set against their son going to Europe for a year.

go against the grain

oppose the natural way, do it the hard way Moe has always been perverse - always going against the grain.

have two strikes against one

have things working against one, be in a difficult situation He already has two strikes against him and it will be very difficult for him to get the job.

hope against hope

continue to hope when things look very bad The rescue team were hoping against hope that the lost hikers would be found alive.

if you're not with us you're against us

"if you do not support us you are against us; can't have it both ways" War divides us into allies and enemies. If you're not with us, you're against us.

knock against

(See the knock against)

offend against

1. To affront, betray, or breach the attempt or laws of addition or something. Anyone who offends adjoin the moral codes of our boondocks will face strict, barbarous punishment. Pardon me, madam. I did not beggarly to abuse adjoin you or your fair virtues. Police accept been accustomed the ascendancy to arrest anyone behind adjoin this law after a accreditation or a trial.2. To accomplish a animal abomination adjoin someone. The aggregation doctor had systematically affronted adjoin adolescent gymnasts for about 20 years afore he was assuredly arrested.Learn more: offend

offend adjoin someone or something

to acrimony or abuse addition or something. We do not ambition to abuse adjoin anyone. He didn't apprehend that he affronted adjoin their cultural values.Learn more: offend

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