Words starting with fightof
Maybe these words will be useful:
- fight a rearguard action/ mount a rearguard action — If someone is fighting a rearguard action or mounting a rearguard action, they are trying very hard to prevent something from happening, even though it is probably too late for them to succeed.
- fight city hall — to take up the apparently futile fight against petty or impersonal bureaucratic authority
- fight down — If you fight down an emotion or a desire, you try very hard not to feel it, show it, or act on it.
- fight for one's life — Someone who is fighting for their life is making a great effort to stay alive, either when they are being physically attacked or when they are very ill.
- fight like kilkenny cats — to fight until both parties are destroyed
- fight out — If two people or groups fight something out, they fight or argue until one of them wins.
- fight to the death — If you say that you will fight to the death for something, you are emphasizing that you will do anything to achieve or protect it, even if you suffer as a consequence.
- fight to the finish — A fight to the finish is one in which one of the people or groups fighting is killed or completely defeated.
- fight windmills — to fight imaginary evils or opponents
- fightable — able or ready to fight