Phrase thesaurus
Against Phrases
87 phrases and expressions related to "against".
Phrases
- 100% versus 6% That's the Total difference (Total Toothpaste advertising slogan)
- A house divided against itself cannot stand
- Against the grain
- Against the law
- Against the odds
- Against your will
- Anti Semitic
- Anti clockwise
- Anti hero
- Anti personnel mine
- Arch enemy
- Bang your head against a brick wall
- Beside myself with joy
- Beside the point
- Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
- Contrary to popular opinion
- Crime against nature
- Disease has no greater enemy (Glaxo/Wellcome advertising slogan)
- For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
- Go against the grain
- Guard against
- Harden your heart against
- He is his own worst enemy
- Hope against hope
- Horlicks guards against night starvation (Horlicks advertising slogan)
- I Do Like To Be Beside The Seaside (British Music Hall song)
- I'll not hear a word against him
- If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
- Kick against
- Kick against the pricks
- Knock up against
- Know your enemy
- Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow (line from nursery rhyme)
- More sinned against than sinning
- My enemy's enemy is my friend (proverb suggesting that opposing parties should cooperate)
- Myth versus reality
- On the contrary
- Pit your wits against
- Play both ends against the middle
- Protect against
- Public Enemy Number One (Nickname of John Dillinger)
- Public enemy
- Race against the clock
- Race against time
- Rage against the machine
- Rage, rage, against the dying of the light
- Set your face against something
- Swim against the tide
- The Thriller In Manila (Ali versus Frazier boxing match)
- The best is the enemy of the good
- The good is the enemy of the best
- The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference (Elie Wiesel quotation)
- There's no law against it
- Up against it
- Up against the wall
- Us versus them (denoting the emnity between two opposing groups)
Related
- A house divided against itself cannot stand
- Against the grain
- Against the law
- Against the odds
- Against your will
- Bang your head against a brick wall
- Charge of the Light Brigade (British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson)
- Crime against nature
- Go against the grain
- Guard against
- Harden your heart against
- Hope against hope
- Horlicks guards against night starvation (Horlicks advertising slogan)
- I'll not hear a word against him
- If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
- Kick against
- Kick against the pricks
- Knock up against
- More sinned against than sinning
- Pit your wits against
- Play both ends against the middle
- Protect against
- Race against the clock
- Race against time
- Rage against the machine
- Rage, rage, against the dying of the light
- Set your face against something
- Swim against the tide
- There's no law against it
- Up against it
- Up against the wall