Phrase thesaurus
Opposite Phrases
42 phrases and expressions related to "opposite".
Phrases
- A house divided against itself cannot stand
- Against the grain
- Against the law
- Against the odds
- Against your will
- As different as chalk and cheese
- 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
- Flip side
- 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
- On the contrary
- Opposites attract
- Pit your wits against
- Play both ends against the middle
- Polar Express (Tom Hanks movie)
- 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)
- The other extreme
- There's no law against it
- Up against it
- Up against the wall