Enemy Phrases

Phrases

• A house divided against itself cannot stand
• A viper in your bosom
• Against the grain
• Against the law
• Against the odds
• Against your will
• Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much (Oscar Wilde quotation)
• And adversity makes strange bedfellows
• Arch enemy
• At daggers drawn
• At odds with
• Bad blood
• Bang your head against a brick wall
• Bear a grudge
• 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
• Disease has no greater enemy (Glaxo/Wellcome advertising slogan)
• Friend or foe?
• Go against the grain
• Got no time for
• Guard against
• Harden your heart against
• He is his own worst enemy
• 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?
• If looks could kill
• Ill will
• Keep your friends close, keep your enemies closer (proverbial saying)
• Kick against
• Kick against the pricks
• Knock up against
• Know your enemy
• More sinned against than sinning
• My enemy's enemy is my friend (proverb suggesting that opposing parties should cooperate)
• On bad terms with
• Pit your wits against
• Pitch a shutout (A baseball expression meaning not allowing an opponent any wins)
• 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 best is the enemy of the good
• The good is the enemy of the best
• There's no law against it
• Throw a beanball (A baseball expression meaning to attack an opponent by aiming at their head)
• Up against it
• Up against the wall
• With friends like that who needs enemies?