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run up against

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run up against someone/something

to experience difficulty with someone or something. Sometimes you run up against a colleague who just doesn't want you to succeed. I ran up against some regulations that were incredibly stupid.

See also: against, run

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If he comes browsing about this farm, he might chance to run up against a charge of buckshot travelling in the opposite direction. A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context He had run up against the ghost on the little staircase, by the footlights, which leads to "the cellars. The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context As we came round the top of the stairs we had run up against Sir Henry Baskerville himself. The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context More results

References in classic literature

If he comes browsing about this farm, he might chance to run up against a charge of buckshot travelling in the opposite direction.

A Study In Scarlet by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

He had run up against the ghost on the little staircase, by the footlights, which leads to "the cellars.

The Phantom of the Opera by Leroux, Gaston View in context

As we came round the top of the stairs we had run up against Sir Henry Baskerville himself.

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Doyle, Sir Arthur Conan View in context

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