put up a fight
English
Verb
put up a fight (third-person singular simple present puts up a fight, present participle putting up a fight, simple past and past participle put up a fight)
- To offer some form of resistance to an attack.
- She put up a fight when the mugger tried to steal her purse.
- 1983, Richard Ellis, The Book of Sharks, Knopf, →ISBN, page 148:
- Most sharks will not put up a fight in the way that a sailfish or a tuna will when caught; sharks usually stay deep and pull hard on the line.
- (figuratively) To protest or make a fuss, especially over a proposed course of action.
- Their youngest son always put up a fight when it was bedtime.
Translations
to offer some form of resistance to an attack
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