run up against something/someone
Definition
› to experience an unexpected difficulty, or to meet someone who is difficult to deal with: He’s the slickest talker I’ve ever run up against.
(Definition of run up against something/someone from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary
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run the gamut idiom
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run the risk of doing something idiom
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run through something phrasal verb EXAMINE
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run through something phrasal verb EXIST
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run to something phrasal verb
- run up against something/someone phrasal verb
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run up something phrasal verb
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run v BE/CONTINUE
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run v FLOW
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run v GO QUICKLY
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run v HOLE
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