set (someone) against (someone)

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• set someone against someone — set (someone/something) against (someone/something) to cause one person or group to oppose another. His health care plan would divide older Americans and set senior against senior. The disagreement has turned into a public feud that has set… …   New idioms dictionary

• set someone against something — set (someone/something) against (someone/something) to cause one person or group to oppose another. His health care plan would divide older Americans and set senior against senior. The disagreement has turned into a public feud that has set… …   New idioms dictionary

• set something against someone — set (someone/something) against (someone/something) to cause one person or group to oppose another. His health care plan would divide older Americans and set senior against senior. The disagreement has turned into a public feud that has set… …   New idioms dictionary

• set something against something — set (someone/something) against (someone/something) to cause one person or group to oppose another. His health care plan would divide older Americans and set senior against senior. The disagreement has turned into a public feud that has set… …   New idioms dictionary

• set someone against — cause someone to be in opposition or conflict with he hadn t meant any harm, but his few words had set her against him …   Useful english dictionary

• set someone against someone else — ALIENATE FROM, estrange from; drive a wedge between, sow dissension, set at odds. → set …   Useful english dictionary

• set someone against — cause someone to be in opposition or conflict with. → set …   English new terms dictionary

• set against — 1. To assail 2. To compare or balance • • • Main Entry: ↑set * * * set against [phrasal verb] 1 set (something) against (something) 1 a : to compare ( …   Useful english dictionary

• set — /set/, v., set, setting, n., adj., interj. v.t. 1. to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table. 2. to place in a particular position or posture: Set the baby on his feet. 3. to place in some relation to something …   Universalium

• set*/*/*/ — [set] (past tense and past participle set) verb I 1) [T] to put someone or something in a position, or to be in a particular place or position Tea s ready, he told them and set down the tray.[/ex] She set the baby on the floor to play.[/ex] 2)… …   Dictionary for writing and speaking English

• set — set1 W1S1 [set] v past tense and past participle set present participle setting ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(put)¦ 2¦(put into surface)¦ 3¦(story)¦ 4¦(consider)¦ 5¦(establish something)¦ 6¦(start something happening)¦ 7¦(decide something)¦ …   Dictionary of contemporary English