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单词 run up against sth
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run up against sth

phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/us/rʌn/verb present participle running, past tense ran, past participle run

C2 to experience an unexpected difficulty:

The plans for the new bridge ran up against strong local opposition.

Thesaurus: synonyms and related words

Experiencing and suffering

  • afflict
  • affliction
  • almost/nearly die of sth idiom
  • be a martyr to sth idiom
  • be a victim of your own success idiom
  • be devoured by sth idiom
  • get the short end of the stick idiom
  • get/have your fingers burned idiom
  • go through sth
  • grip
  • hands-on
  • hold
  • ride
  • run into sth
  • sample
  • seat
  • sense
  • underwent
  • ups and downs
  • writhe

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run up against sth

phrasal verb with run uk/rʌn/usverb running, ran, run

to have difficulties because of a particular situation:

Some consumers are running up against a bank policy that makes cashing the checks expensive.
Young people from cultural and religious minorities often run up against the wall of institutionalised racism.
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