reckon with (someone/something)

to consider the influence or power that someone or something has.

He failed to reckon with the bureaucratic skills of the military.

You have to reckon with these angry people who just don't like change of any kind.

• at variance with
• at variance with someone
• at variance with something
• a twist of the knife
• at wit's end
• at worst
• a two-way street
• at your best
• at your convenience
• at your earliest convenience
• at your expense
• at your fingertips
• at your leisure
• at your mother's knee
• at your own game
• at your wit's end
• au courant
• au naturel
• autumn years
• avail of
• avail of something
• avail yourself of
• avail yourself of something
• avant-garde
• average out to