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Meaning of you can't fight City Hall | Babel Free

Phrase CEFR C2

Definitions

Nothing can be done to change the situation, because it is a governmental decision or a similarly institutional decision (e.g., high-level corporate, senior military brass, dominant cultural norm).

US, figuratively

Examples

“I see they're going to build the airport after all. I suppose you can't fight City Hall.”
“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."”

CEFR level

C2
Mastery
This word is part of the CEFR C2 vocabulary — mastery level.

See also

you can't fix stupid you can't get a quart into a pint pot you can't go home again you can't judge a book by its cover you can't keep a good man down you can't make a silk purse of a sow's ear

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