wrangle with

wrangle with (something)

To struggle to understand, solve, or deal with something. We've been wrangling with the issue of the system overheating, but there's no clear way to get past it. I've been wrangling with immigration issues ever since I moved here in 2010.
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Farlex Dictionary of Idioms.

wrangle with

v.
1. To be strenuously engaged with some problem, task, or undertaking: I have been wrangling with this problem for days and still cannot solve it.
2. To quarrel noisily or angrily with someone: I couldn't sleep because my brothers were wrangling with each other all night. John is wrangling with his roommate over the phone bill.
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The American Heritage® Dictionary of Phrasal Verbs.
See also:
  • wrangle with (something)
  • square the circle
  • get to the bottom of
  • get to the bottom of (something)
  • get to the bottom of something
  • hard nut to crack
  • a hard egg to crack
  • a hard nut (to crack)
  • a hard/tough nut
  • a tough nut
References in classic literature
"Don't set yourself to wrangle with me, husband," said Teresa; "I speak as God pleases, and don't deal in out-of-the-way phrases; and I say if you are bent upon having a government, take your son Sancho with you, and teach him from this time on how to hold a government; for sons ought to inherit and learn the trades of their fathers."
Don Quixote
ANY potential sale of Brandon Stadium could be subject to a legal wrangle with Her Majesty's Revenue & Customs.
Venue cannot be sold, insists HMRC
A long-term patient of the Penetanguishene Mental Health Centre, Christian Herbert Harold Magee brought the Centre into a legal wrangle with the Ontario Review Board.
Mental health centres in legal wrangle with Ontario Review Board
But now he and his new club find themselves embroiled in an unpleasant legal wrangle with a chairman who is very good at writing his own headlines.
Football: Dowie's exit did not do him justice
A distinct part of the pain of reading Bellow for me is seeing how his novels wrangle with and reject the idea that educating women could improve their minds.
Saul bellow reconsidered
NEWCASTLE are preparing for a legal wrangle with Birmingham as they bid to land Steve Bruce before Saturday's match with Blackburn.
Football: NEWCASTLE BRUCE FIGHT; Toon move in for Steve
RECENTLYcrowned World Rally Champion Richard Burns will drive for Peugeot next year after his legal wrangle with Subaru was resolved.
RALLYING:
Travel group National Express has settled a two-year old legal wrangle with an American bus operator at a cost of pounds 15.6 million.
School bus row settled for pounds 15.6m
Former German star Bernd Schuster has pocketed more than pounds 1 million from a contract wrangle with Bayer Leverkusen.
Germans get fingers Bernd
CONTROVERSIAL: Coventry Airport has been at the centre of a legal wrangle with planners
Millions lost in legal wrangle at airport; Airline boss says row has deterred passengers