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can't fight City Hall
Idioms and Phrases
Unable to overcome bureaucratic rules, as in Brad couldn't get a permit without going through channels鈥攜ou can't fight City Hall! This term transfers the seat of city government to a more general sense of bureaucracy in any sphere. [Mid-1800s]Example Sentences
You can undoubtedly imagine some of the responses: "You can't fight City Hall!"
The saying 鈥淵ou can鈥檛 fight City Hall鈥 captures the immovable nature of government bureaucracy.
鈥淵ou can鈥檛 fight City Hall,鈥 O鈥橫alley said, but Rising proved his mettle to the team owner in the failed campaign.
As an old saying goes, you can't fight city hall, meaning government.
Casting a skeptical eye on the possibility of democratic reforms in China, 鈥淟ost Course鈥 makes for a bleak illustration of the adage that you can鈥檛 fight city hall 鈥 or in this case, a village committee, if the committee is part of a much larger system.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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