come up against

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 .

Example Sentences

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

From The Daily Beast

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

From Project Gutenberg

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

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

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

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

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Related Words

• accost
• defy
• encounter
• meet
• oppose
• repel
• resist