be up against it
informalDefinition
› to be having or likely to have serious problems or difficulties: With seven members of the team missing, Hull are going to be up against it. Many families are up against it, unable to afford even basic items.Experiencing difficulties
(Definition of be up against it from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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- be (caught) between a rock and a hard place idiom
- be climbing the walls idiom
- be for the high jump idiom
- be in the soup idiom
- be riding for a fall idiom
- be/come up against a brick wall idiom
- be/get bogged down phrasal verb
- beleaguered adjective
- difficulty noun
- embattled adjective
- have a thin time (of it) idiom
- have fun and games idiom
- have your back to/against the wall idiom
- in a stew idiom
- it never rains but it pours idiom
- pushed adjective
- rocky road idiom
- stranded adjective
- stuck adjective
- the heat is on idiom
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