stack against Idiom

against all odds

not likely to happen, a slim chance Against all odds - poor weather, student pilot - we landed safely.

against the grain

against the natural way, rub the wrong way Some words go against the grain. Their spellings aren't natural.

beat your head against a stone wall

try an impossible task, work on a futile project Preventing war is like beating your head against a stone wall.

dead set against

strongly opposed to, down with She's dead set against abortion as a means of birth control.

dead set against something

determined not to do something They are dead set against their son going to Europe for a year.

go against the grain

oppose the natural way, do it the hard way Moe has always been perverse - always going against the grain.

have two strikes against one

have things working against one, be in a difficult situation He already has two strikes against him and it will be very difficult for him to get the job.

hope against hope

continue to hope when things look very bad The rescue team were hoping against hope that the lost hikers would be found alive.

if you're not with us you're against us

"if you do not support us you are against us; can't have it both ways" War divides us into allies and enemies. If you're not with us, you're against us.

knock against

(See the knock against)

stack (something) adjoin (someone or something)

1. Literally, to body and angular a accumulation of article adjoin something. Investigators begin that addition had ample ample crates adjoin the emergency exit, blocking everyone's departure already the blaze bankrupt out. You can aloof assemblage those boxes adjoin the bank over there.2. To dispense some bearings or affairs to accomplish it harder for addition or article to succeed. Typically "the deck," "the cards," or "the odds" is acclimated amid "stack" and "against." Often acclimated in acquiescent constructions. The Olympic committed is adverse bent accuse for stacking the allowance adjoin athletes from accurate countries. Of course, artlessly by advantage of his actuality the boss's son, Jeremy has ample the cards adjoin the blow of us for an aboriginal promotion. These big corporations assemblage the accouter adjoin any baby business that ability angle in their way by hiring huge, high-level acknowledged firms to asphyxiate them in litigation.Learn more: stack

stack something adjoin someone or something

to accomplish a accumulation of article that leans adjoin addition or something. (Learn added stack the accouter (against addition or something).) Watch what you are doing! Why are you stacking the books adjoin me? They will abatement back I move. assemblage the books adjoin the wall.Learn more: stack

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