jostle with

jostle with (someone or something)

1. To struggle, wrestle, or grapple with someone or some group. The bouncer jostled with the unruly customer, eventually managing to throw him out into the alley behind the bar. I hate having to jostle with big crowds, so I usually travel to places in their off season.

2. To compete or contend with someone or some group in order to attain some benefit, advantage, or position. I'd love that promotion, but I know I'll be jostling with about 10 other people in our department to get it. The small kingdom has been jostling with three other nations for control over the region.

jostle with someone

to struggle with someone. Andy jostled with Fred for access to the door. Timmy and Bobby jostled with one another while they were waiting to get in.

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释义	jostle with jostle with (someone or something) 1. To struggle, wrestle, or grapple with someone or some group. The bouncer jostled with the unruly customer, eventually managing to throw him out into the alley behind the bar. I hate having to jostle with big crowds, so I usually travel to places in their off season. 2. To compete or contend with someone or some group in order to attain some benefit, advantage, or position. I'd love that promotion, but I know I'll be jostling with about 10 other people in our department to get it. The small kingdom has been jostling with three other nations for control over the region. See also: jostle Farlex Dictionary of Idioms. jostle with someone to struggle with someone. Andy jostled with Fred for access to the door. Timmy and Bobby jostled with one another while they were waiting to get in. See also: jostle McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. See also: jostle with (someone or something) that takes care of that zot zot. grapple grappling grapple with grapple with (someone or something) grapple for (something) take a firm grip on (someone or something) References in classic literature They were jumbled together in a most unsightly fashion, in the middle of the road; to the great obstruction of the thoroughfare and the annoyance of passengers, who were fain to make their way, as they best could, among carts, baskets, barrows, trucks, casks, bulks, and benches, and to jostle with porters, hucksters, waggoners, and a motley crowd of buyers, sellers, pick- pockets, vagrants, and idlers. Barnaby Rudge A Tale Of The Riots Of Eighty The First Minister was relatively quiet throughout the evening, apart from a verbal jostle with Julie Kirkbride. DEBATOR SCLASH He's now been short-listed for his prodding portrait of Texas, Memory Bucket, 2003, a polysemic parade of video, photographs, and paraphernalia wherein the testimonies of Branch Davidians jostle with footage of Dubya's favorite burger bar and of three million bats blackening the big sky. Turn, turn, turn: Martin Herbert on the 2004 Turner Prize Fashion shoots jostle with sepia photographs of city streets, media reports lapse into fictive accounts, and rules concerning a competition for urban planning in Berlin are juxtaposed with a drawing from Art Spiegelman's Maus and a '60s lighting advertisement. Eran Schaerf; Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann
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