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versus
6% That's the Total difference ( Total Toothpaste advertising slogan )
A house divided against itself cannot stand
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Against the grain
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Against the law
Against the odds
Against your will
Anti
Semitic
Anti
clockwise
Anti
hero
Anti
personnel mine
Arch
enemy
Bang your head against a brick wall
Beside
myself with joy
Beside
the point
Charge of the Light Brigade ( British cavalry charge against Russian army in the Crimean War and title of a poem by Tennyson )
Contrary
to popular opinion
Crime against nature
Disease has no greater
enemy
( Glaxo/Wellcome advertising slogan )
For every action there is an equal and
opposite
reaction
Go against the grain
Guard against
Harden your heart against
He is his own worst
enemy
Hope against hope
Horlicks guards against night starvation ( Horlicks advertising slogan )
I Do Like To Be
Beside
The Seaside ( British Music Hall song )
I'll not hear a word against him
If I said you had a beautiful body would you hold it against me?
Kick against
Kick against the pricks
Knock up against
Know your
enemy
Mary Mary quite contrary, how does your garden grow ( line from nursery rhyme )
More sinned against than sinning
My enemy's
enemy
is my friend ( proverb suggesting that
opposing
parties should cooperate )
Myth
versus
reality
On the
contrary
Pit your wits against
Play both ends against the middle
Protect against
Public
Enemy
Number One ( Nickname of John Dillinger )
Public
enemy
Race against the clock
Race against time
Rage against the machine
Rage, rage, against the dying of the light
Set your face against something
Swim against the tide
The Thriller In Manila ( Ali
versus
Frazier boxing match )
The best is the
enemy
of the good
The good is the
enemy
of the best
The
opposite
of love is not hate, it's indifference ( Elie Wiesel quotation )
There's no law against it
Up against it
Up against the wall
Us
versus
them ( denoting the emnity between two
opposing
groups )