Contrary Phrases

Phrases

• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• Against the grain
• Against the law
• Against the odds
• Against your will
• As stubborn as a mule
• Au contraire
• 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)
• Contrary to popular opinion
• Crime against nature
• For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction
• 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
• 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)
• Negative equity
• On the contrary
• 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
• Reverse engineering
• Set your face against something
• Swim against the tide
• 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)