New English-Irish Dictionary

Similar words: bump up against · run up against · brush up against · check against · count against · come up with · go against · match against · pale against · proceed against

come up against

TRANSITIVEsuddenly, I came up against a problem go tobann, bhí fadhb agamthey'll come up against better teams tá foirne níos fearr amach rompu, casfar foirne níos fearr orthu → see come

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to come up against a brick wall (also to run up against a brick wall, to hit a brick wall)we suddenly came up against a brick wall go tobann bhí fál go haer romhainn
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we've come up against a wall of silence níl á fháil againn ach dúthost
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he came up against a wall of prejudice bhí daoine claonta go docht ina choinne

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