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Phrase(s): wrestle with someone
to contend with someone in a physical wrestling match. • You are too big to wrestle with him! • I want to wrestle with someone my own size., Phrase(s): wrestle with something
1. to struggle with something large to move it about. • He wrestled with the piano and finally got it to move. • The two men were wrestling with the heavy trunk for nearly ten minutes, trying to get it up the stairs. 2. to grapple or struggle with some large animal. • The man wrestled with the tiger for a while but was seriously mauled in a short time. • Sam liked to wrestle with the family dog. 3. to struggle with a difficult problem; to struggle with a moral decision. • We wrestled with the problem and finally decided to go ahead. • Let me wrestle with this matter for a while longer.
McGrawhill's American Idioms And Phrasal Verbs