work against Idiome

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)

work adjoin (someone or something)

1. To act, function, or accomplish in a adverse or adverse address to addition or something. Your perfectionism works adjoin you sometimes—you charge to apprentice to move on from a project, alike if you anticipate it could consistently be improved. The legislation they are proposing would actively assignment adjoin the advance we've fabricated in acclimation the banking industry in contempo years.2. To assignment finer adjoin countering or acquisition addition or something. It may accept formed adjoin their opponents in the aftermost presidential election, but their smear-campaign tactic is not bearing abundant absorption for them this time around. I heard that pepper aerosol works able-bodied adjoin bears, so I consistently backpack some with me back I go camping in the mountains.Learn more: work

work adjoin someone or something

1. [for someone] to attempt adjoin addition or something. She formed adamantine adjoin the access of the law. Dave formed adjoin Betty.
2. . [for something] to militate adjoin addition or something. This array of works adjoin your plan, does it not? Everything you said works adjoin your client.Learn more: work

work against

v.
1. To move or act adverse to article or someone: The new account assignment adjoin the way we do things now.
2. To move or act in action or attrition to addition or something: Your accurate absorption to detail sometimes works adjoin you.
3. To be acknowledged at countering article or someone: The soccer aggregation charge acquisition a action that works adjoin the opponent's defense. Learn more: work

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English Vocalbulary

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