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kicking against the pricks

1. Expression of biblical origin (Acts 26:14) refering to Saul's persecution of the church.

2. Fighting, denouncing, or otherwise going against a power to one's own detriment.

3. A fucking hella-good Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds album
1. And when we were all fallen to the earth, I heard a voice speaking unto me, and saying in the Hebrew tongue, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks.

2. You've got to stop fighting change, you're just kicking against the pricks.

3. Long Black Veil, nuff said.
by Digby March 13, 2003
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up against it

A situation in which the deck is stacked against you.

In other words you're fucked.
by ShamrockLuva November 27, 2004
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aging hippie douchebag

A 40 something, bald-headed dumbass with a scraggly-ass ponytail and typically sports a tie-dye tee shirt and crooked glasses. More often than not, they never were a hippie in the first place. A lot like a straight up douchebag except they are always bald with a ponytail.
1. look at the aging hippie douchebag, God what a douche eh.
2. Check out the ponytail on that aging hippie douchebag, wtf.
by v.michael September 8, 2009
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global struggle against extremism

Our secratery of defense Donald Rumsfeld's new name for what used to be our war on terror. Probably used because its better to lose a struggle than a war, and terror makes people scared, whereas extremism sounds like something on espn6.
Yes!!! at last the war on terror has ended! Let the global struggle against extremism begin!
by Brian August 29, 2005
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shit-against-the-wall-pharmacology

noun. The process of throwing chemicals at a disease until something changes.
"shit-against-the-wall-pharmacology," credit to Barry Schuler @ TEDTalks.
by antiver. February 6, 2009
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aggintaf

hey johhny has a pinner and is an aggintaf

omg you aggintaf
by ryyyyyyyyanwigan January 8, 2009
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rise against

the band ever to walk the earth of any genre. No one one can touch their musical talent.
That rise against concert was awesome
by Dr. Phil69 December 10, 2009
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