strike as

strike (one) as (something)

To cause one to consider someone or something as being a certain type of person or thing. You don't strike me as the type to take criticism like that very lightly. The design just doesn't strike me as anything particularly unique or interesting.

strike someone as something

1. [for a thought or behavior] to affect someone a certain way. John's rude behavior struck me as surprising. Mary's attitude struck me as childish.

2. [for a person] to impress someone as something or a particular type of person. You strike me as thoughtful. You don't strike me as the type of person to do something like that.

See also: strike

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Northwest Airlines could face a strike as early as Saturday morning if it does not reach a contract agreement with its mechanics union.

Company Watch August 2005

Although the dictionary defines a strike as "a temporary stoppage of [work] in order to bring about compliance with demands," historians can better understand a strike as a cultural act, as a drama which workers use to convey their messages to potential supporters.

First, there is clear evidence that the strikers analyzed the Klein's-Ohrbach's strike as a struggle of white-collar workers.

Monkey business in Union Square: a cultural analysis of the Klein's-Ohrbach's strikes of 1934-5

While it is difficult to point to the strike as the cause of changes in the hospital environment in the two years after the strike, its impact is definitely significant.

The revolution in nursing and collective bargaining over the previous 5 to 10 years made a strike a likely occurrence.

Nurses' strikes: a profession maturing

The socialist editor and labor organizer Oscar Ameringer described the "scab brigade" as composed of "riff-raff, slum dwellers, rubes, imbeciles [and] college students."(6) Journalists described the 1,500 strikebreakers shipped in from Western towns to help break the 1905 New York IRT strike as unkempt lumpenproletarians, a "weird appearing lot," with "holes in their shoes," who "had not patronized [barbers] .

The student as strikebreaker: college youth and the crisis of masculinity in the early twentieth century