be up against

be up against something/somebody

if you are up against a situation, a person, or a group of people, they make it very difficult for you to achieve what you want to achieve When I saw how deeply the racist views were held I began to understand what we were up against. The Welsh rugby team will really be up against it (= have a lot of problems) when they take on France next week.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Ezer	-	Biblical, Biblical Hebrew
Cristiano	kree-STYAH-no (Italian), kreesh-TYA-noo (Portuguese)	Italian, Portuguese
Reiner	RIE-ner (German)	German, Ancient Germanic
Midhat	-	Arabic
Salome	sə-LO-mee (English), SAH-lə-may (English)	English, German, Georgian, Biblical, Biblical Latin, Biblical Greek
Galloway	['gæləwei]