you can't fight City Hall
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- (chiefly US) Nothing can be done to change the situation, because it is a governmental decision.
- I see they're going to build the airport after all. I suppose you can't fight City Hall.
- 1998, Sarah Schulman, Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, Duke University Press, page 45:
- As Audre Lorde, my professor at Hunter College, told our class in 1982, "That you can't fight City Hall is a rumor being spread by City Hall."