go against

Meaning

1. Oxford89% of films

   to resist or oppose sb / sth

In the movies · 25

• It goes against everything we stand for.All the President's Men1976
• But that goes against everything Arendalle stands for.Frozen II2019
• Correct. And that goes against everything sports should be about.The Boys in the Boat2023
• You wanna go against me?Widows2018
• Three can't go against the whole crew.12 Years a Slave2013
• Doesn't that go against your programing or something?Moon2009
• I gotta go against him?Scary Movie 32003
• I mean, I don't want to go against Him.Something the Lord Made2004

Learn it in full scenes

• All the President's Men1976
  • Police Arrest the Watergate Burglars
  • Woodward Traces the White House Call
  • Who Gets the Watergate Story

From the same entry

• anything goes
• as people, things, go
• be going on
• be going to do
• don't go doing
• enough to be going on with
• go all out for
• go and do
• go off on one
• go on
• a lot, nothing, going for you
• no go

More phrasal verbs

• keep out
• mess around
• go on doing
• stick up for
• come on
• get ahead
• stick out
• add up
• fill in
• start off
• look through
• run away from