uphill battle
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Noun
[edit]uphill battle (plural uphill battles)
- (idiomatic) A challenge with the odds of success stacked strongly against.
- 2021 October 11, Jan Hoffman, quoting Uzma Syed, “Boosters Are Complicating Efforts to Persuade the Unvaccinated to Get Shots”, in The New York Times[1], →ISSN:
- “It is an uphill battle,” said Dr. Uzma Syed, an infectious disease specialist in Jericho, N.Y., on Long Island, who for months has been giving vaccine education talks to national and international groups.