campaign against

campaign against (someone or something)

1. To strongly oppose someone or something and encourage others to do the same; to fight against someone or something. Many people in our small town are campaigning against that big construction project because they feel that we don't need more stores so close to our homes.
2. To pursue an elected office against a specific opponent. I'll never win the student council presidency if I have to campaign against Caroline—she's so popular!
See also: campaign
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

campaign against someone or something

 
1. to crusade or battle against someone or something. Currently, I am campaigning against littering. Sarah is campaigning against crooked politicians.
2. to run one's political campaign against someone or something. I campaigned against the incumbent and won. John spent a lot of time campaigning against Sarah for class president.
See also: campaign
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • be/have done with somebody/something
  • be in line with (someone or something)
  • better of
  • (someone or something) promises well
  • begin with
  • begin with (someone or something)
  • bird has flown, the
  • beware of
  • beware of (someone or something)
  • be rough on (someone or something)
References in classic literature
Now, it had been agreed between Mrs Waters and the captain that she would accompany him in his march as far as Worcester, where they were to take their leave of each other, and she was thence to return to Bath, where she was to stay till the end of the winter's campaign against the rebels.
The History of Tom Jones a Foundling
Madame set out for London, where she applied herself so earnestly to make her brother, Charles II., acquire a taste for the political counsels of Mademoiselle de Keroualle, that the alliance between England and France was signed, and the English vessels, ballasted by a few millions of French gold, made a terrible campaign against the fleets of the United Provinces.
The Man in the Iron Mask
As certainly as I sit here, she is going to open the campaign against Noel Vanstone and Mrs.
No Name
We now returned to Anoroc and thence to the main-land, where I again took up the campaign against the Mahars, marching from one great buried city to another until we had passed far north of Amoz into a country where I had never been.
Pellucidar
Poor Sorrow's campaign against sin, the world, and the devil was doomed to be of limited brilliancy--luckily perhaps for himself, considering his beginnings.
Tess of the dUrbervilles A Pure Woman
We had plenty of spectators when we mounted, for the hotel was full of English people bound overland to India and officers getting ready for the African campaign against the Abyssinian King Theodorus.
The Innocents Abroad
It was not for this rubbish I asked you to come over here" (he pocketed the money, however, at this point), "it was to invite your alliance in the campaign against Nastasia Philipovna tonight.
The Idiot
She said, "Promise me that you will not tell me anything of the plans formed for the campaign against the Count.
Dracula
I understood that he had opened his campaign against Charles Augustus Milverton, but I little dreamed the strange shape which that campaign was destined to take.
The Return of Sherlock Holmes
"This campaign against the old squires just hits the degree of democracy there is in this county.
The Man Who Knew Too Much
South Korean start their campaign against Greece this lunchtime (12.30).
Korean claim; World Cup briefs
In a relentless campaign against those who peddle misery on Teesside, Cleveland Police has scored a string of high-profile victories in the war against drugs.
NO HIDING; EXCLUSIVE: The Teesside drug dealers taken off our streets
We campaign against a party (with a mainly middle-class membership) which seeks to divide working-class people along the artificial lines of race, nationality and religion.
Freedom for all; You Say
FOOTBALL authorities in Uganda have launched a campaign against homosexuality in the sport.
AFRICA GAY STORM
JAIL terms of 12 years imposed on three animal rights extremists for their parts in a terror campaign against Midland guinea pig breeders - in which an 82-year-old woman's body was stolen from her grave - were "fully merited", the Court of Appeal ruled today.
Animal rights trio's appeals are rejected; COURT: Judges reject plea for shorter sentences