be/come up against somebody/something

From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbe/come up against somebody/somethingbe/come up against somebody/somethingPROBLEMto have to deal with a difficult opponent or problem You see, this is what we’re up against – the suppliers just aren’t reliable. → againstExamples from the Corpusbe/come up against somebody/something• The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.• And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?• Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.• Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.• What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.• In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.• A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.• At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State.

单词	be/come up against somebody/something
释义	be/come up against somebody/something From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishbe/come up against somebody/somethingbe/come up against somebody/somethingPROBLEMto have to deal with a difficult opponent or problem You see, this is what we’re up against – the suppliers just aren’t reliable. → againstExamples from the Corpusbe/come up against somebody/something• The acts were not just reluctant to offend, but even to probe beyond the first middle-class convention they came up against.• And what do you do when to come up against a brick wall?• Here, Wade realized, he had come up against a few firm truths.• Together, they come up against an extraordinarily barbaric state bureaucracy and not a few disappointments.• What you have here is a situation where custom and convention comes up against constitutional guarantees.• In every direction he came up against his own incompleteness.• A ripple of crowd laughter came up against the breeze from the direction of the main grandstands.• At every turn workers found themselves coming up against the State.
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