COME UP AGAINST

come up against = face something difficult

 examples:

• When we first opened our shop, we came up against  many difficulties.
• When we first came to this neighbourhood, we came up against many unexpected problems.
• The mayor wants to close one road and open a new one elsewhere but he has come up against many local businesses who disagree.
• The government has come up against a lot of opposition to their plans.
• We always come up against smaller or bigger problems in life and we have to solve them. Sometimes we feel we come up against a brick wall, because the problems seem impossible to solve.