crusade against

crusade against (someone or something)

To strongly oppose someone or something and encourage others to do the same. Many people in our small town are crusading against that big construction project because they feel that we don't need more stores so close to our homes.
See also: crusade
Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

crusade against someone or something

to campaign or demonstrate against someone or something. You are always crusading against one cause or another. Ed started crusading against Eric and the latter threatened suit.
See also: crusade
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • crusade
  • crusade against (someone or something)
  • Crusade for
  • crusade for (someone or something)
  • campaign
  • campaign against
  • campaign against (someone or something)
  • campaign for
  • campaign for (someone or something)
  • carry the torch
References in classic literature
The professor was carrying on a hot crusade against materialists.
Anna Karenina
It is almost impossible for one of them to write a line on the subject, however kindly he may do so, without being suspected of wishing to open a crusade against the fair sex.
Thus Spake Zarathustra
Messages were sent to the other governors of New England, and to New York and Pennsylvania, entreating them to unite in this crusade against the French.
Grandfathers Chair
Mullah Mohammad Omar also called for a holy struggle against what he termed a Western crusade against Afghanistan.
War on Terror: Call To Rich To Fight U.S
It might come as a surprise, then, that the '50s crusade against comic books was led by a leftist psychologist, that Hollywood's old Production Code was a byproduct of the New Deal, and that Jane Addams, one of the Progressive Era's most prominent reformers, worried publicly about the effect movies might have on the young.
Intolerant Alliance
POLICE chief Sir John Stevens last night urged Christians to respond to the attacks on America with a "crusade against evil".
WAR ON TERROR: INNOCENT VICTIMS: TOP COP'S 'CRUSADE'
At the same time, the crusade against laundering has served as an excuse for criminalizing a wide range of conduct, such as cash transactions over $10,000 not reported to the government, in which none of the participants would in other respects be deemed criminal and no one is trying to "launder" anything.
Lost in the wash: "know your customer" rules send privacy to the cleaners
How many others are turning against the police and their never-ending crusade against motorists, while criminals go about their business?
Mirror M@ilbox: Reader's letter
Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism is, as far as I know, the first book-length critical review of the crusade against sexual harassment.
Heterophobia: Sexual Harassment and the Future of Feminism
A FLEET of British airships will carry on Princess Diana's crusade against landmines.
Airships mines bid
Welcome to the latest phase in the crusade against radon, an invisible, odorless, naturally occurring gas produced by the breakdown of the radioactive elements uranium and thorium, which are found in rocks and soil.
Gaseous menace
Her crusade against corruption has lost none of its steam.
Irish Mirror: Sleazebuster
Some social conservatives (Irving Kristol, for one) have always been guardedly sympathetic to the feminist crusade against sexual harassment, viewing it, rather simplistically, as an effort to restore Victorian protections for the weaker sex.
Groping toward sanity: why the Clinton sex scandals are changing how we talk about sexual harassment
SEAN Penn yesterday launched a one-man crusade against the Oscars, calling the glittering ceremony "a fix".
Penn writes off Oscars as 'big fix'
The recent crusade against Mercator-projection maps is a case in point.
The Vision of the Anointed: Self-Congratulation as a Basis for Social Policy