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The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
Harry Lloyd

Meaning of "come up against" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF COME UP AGAINST

come up against play
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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE COME UP AGAINST

come to grief
come to hand
come to life
come to light
come to light with
come to one´s knowledge
come to pass
come to rest
come to terms
come to the party
come to the surface
come unglued
come unstuck
come up
come up smiling
come up to
come up with
come upon
come what may
come with the first four ships

WORDS THAT END LIKE COME UP AGAINST

against
as against
count against
go against
knock one´s head against
over against
set against
set one´s face against
take against
thereagainst
turn against
up against

Synonyms and antonyms of come up against in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «come up against» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF COME UP AGAINST

Find out the translation of come up against to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of come up against from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «come up against» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

碰到
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

tropezado con
570 millions of speakers

English

come up against
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

के खिलाफ आ
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

نصطدم
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

наталкиваемся
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

esbarram
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিরুদ্ধে আসা আপ
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

se heurter à
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

akan menentang
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

stoßen auf
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

直面する
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

에 올라 오는
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Mbaleni
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

đi lên chống lại
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எதிராக வாருங்கள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विरुद्ध येणे
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Karşı gelmek
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

incontrare
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

napotykają
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

натрапляємо
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

veni împotriva
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

έρχονται αντιμέτωποι με
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

kom teen
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

stöta
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

komme opp mot
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of come up against

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «COME UP AGAINST»

The term «come up against» is regularly used and occupies the 104.059 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «COME UP AGAINST» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about come up against

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10 QUOTES WITH «COME UP AGAINST»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word come up against.
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John Bonham
Sometimes you'd come up against a brick wall... or sometimes you go into a fill and you'd know halfway through it was going to be disastrous.
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John Crowley
The bottom line is, it's a great script and that's very inspiring and makes you want to overcome whatever technical difficulties you come up against.
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Robert Crumb
When I come up against the real world, I just vacillate.
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Jakob Dylan
If people want to talk about Bob Dylan, I can talk about that. But my dad belongs to me and four other people exclusively. I'm very protective of that. And telling people whether he was affectionate is telling people a lot. It has so little to do with me. I come up against a wall.
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P. J. Harvey
Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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Jeremy Lin
Sometimes you come up against a mountain and you end up making the mountain seem bigger than God.
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Harry Lloyd
The interesting thing is, when you play a real-life character or someone based in a book, you always come up against people's preconceptions of what they have in their heads.
8
Claire Messud
As any of us approaches middle age, we inevitably come up against our limitations: the realization that certain dearly-held fantasies may not be realized; that circumstances have thwarted us; that even with intention and will we may not be able to set our ship back on the course we'd planned.
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Jack Nicholson
When I come up against a director who has a concept that I don't agree with, or maybe I just haven't thought of it or whatever, I'd be more prone to go with them than my own because I want to be out of control as an actor, I want them to have the control, otherwise it's going to become predictably my work, and that's not fun.
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Stacy Schiff
Here you have an incredibly ambitious, accomplished woman who comes up against some of the same problems that women in power come up against today. Cleopatra plays an oddly pivotal role in world history as well; in her lifetime, Alexandria is the center of the universe, Rome is still a backwater.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «COME UP AGAINST»

Discover the use of come up against in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to come up against and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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A Collection of Confusible Phrases
6. be shattered by explosion: The munition factory went up when the bomb fell on it. come up against a brick wall run one's head into a brick wall come up against a brick wall - (also: come up against a blank wall) encounter an impenetrable ...
Yuri Dolgopolov, 2004
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A Concordance to the Canonical Books of the Old and New ...
Come up unto me, and help me, that we may 6. come up to us quickly, and save us, and help us Indy. 1. 3. Come up with me into my lot l2. 3. wherefore then are ye a. up unto me this day 15. IO. Judah said, Why are ye come up against us! 16.
‎1859
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A Dictionary of Confusable Phrases: More Than 10,000 Idioms ...
5. (of prices, etc.) rise; increase: Everything seems to be going up these days: coal, groceries, rents. 6. be shattered by explosion: The munition factory went up when the bomb fell on it. come up against a brick wall • run one's head into a brick ...
Yuri Dolgopolov, 2010
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The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old ...
Why are ye come up against us ? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, 16: 17. There hath not come a razor upon mine head ; 18. Then the lords of the Philistines came up 20: 3. that the children of Israel were gone up 40. the ...
George V. Wigram, 1866
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The Englishman's Hebrew and Chaldee Concordance of the Old ...
Why are yc come up against us? And they answered, To bind Samson are we come up, 16: 17. There hath not come a razor upon mine head ; 18. Then the lords of the Philistines came up 20: 3. that the children of Israel were gone up 40. the ...
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Reports from Committees
Did you say, "you are come up against my husband to transport him"? No, I never said " transport him." 2575. Did you say, " You are come up against my husband " ? — A gentleman said, " What is amiss?" I said, "He has come up against my ...
Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons, 1857
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Harrap's essential English Dictionary
... a The car's coming up for its road test soon. come up against You come up against a problem when you are faced with it: Many black recruits still come up against prejudice within the police force. come upon You come upon something when ...
‎1996
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The American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Second Edition
Also see the subsequent idioms beginning with COME UP. come up against Encounter, especially an obstacle or problem. For example, I 've never come up against anything I can't handle, or Dealing with Malcolm is like coming up against a ...
Christine Ammer, 2013
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English-Albanian Dictionary of Idioms
11. jap □ The teacher asked a difficult question, but finally Ben came up with a good answer. come up against perballem, ndeshem balle per balle □ We expect to come up against a lot of opposition to the scheme. □ Not for the first time her ...
Ilo Stefanllari, 2000
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Phrasal Verbs
... in droves 38 come out in support of 37 come out of nowhere 37 come out of retirement 38 come out of the closet 38 come out on top 37 come up 17, 26 come up against a brick wall 18 come up against 17 come up empty handed 17 come up ...
Michael Barlow, Stephanie Burdine, 2006

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «COME UP AGAINST»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term come up against is used in the context of the following news items.
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July Budget 2015 LIVE: Welfare bill to take centre stage
... Osborne's plan to relax Sunday trading laws - which will be announced in today's budget - might come up against some stiff opposition. «Telegraph.co.uk, Jul 15»
2
Jayden Stockley keen to bring different option to Pompey
'I've played against Paul Cook when he was Chesterfield manager and I thought they were hard to come up against, with a difficult formation to ... «Hayling Islander, Jul 15»
3
Four teams to contest football's Audi quattro Cup
They'll come up against their former manager, and the current boss of Southampton, Ronald Koeman, who was the man in the Mestalla dugout ... «Red Bull, Jul 15»
4
The Martyn Phillips Q&A: New WRU chief executive outlines his …
People will come up against road blocks in their jobs and my job is to help remove those to let them get on with it. But I am not an authoritarian, ... «WalesOnline, Jul 15»
5
Derby County squad has Premier League quality says Simon Dawkins
Their final group match sees them come up against El Salvador in Toronto on Tuesday, July 14. *Read more of today's top news stories here. «Burton Mail, Jul 15»
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Edible insect farming: A solution to famine?
"One day we'll [come up against] the 'ick factor'," Goldin says. "But right now so many open-minded people in Europe and the US are contacting ... «gulfnews.com, Jul 15»
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Former Socceroo Robbie Cornthwaite brings scoring boots to …
"It was the first time I've come up against Premier League opposition and I thought we played quite well and were unlucky not to get a result," ... «Sydney Morning Herald, Jul 15»
8
Roger Federer vs Gilles Simon Preview and Analysis – Wimbledon …
Federer will come up against Gilles Simon, who produced one of his best matches in recent memory to dominate Tomas Berdych en route to ... «Stevegtennis.com, Jul 15»
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California district court rules that Twitter not required to reveal …
If he does, however, and as we saw from the Music Group case, Hadeed would come up against established Ninth Circuit First Amendment ... «Lexology, Jul 15»
10
Derby County: Simon Dawkins reckons Rams squad has Premier …
Their final group match sees them come up against El Salvador in Toronto on Tuesday, July 14. *Read more of today's top news stories here. «Derby Telegraph, Jul 15»

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