reckon with

reckon with
1) PHRASAL VERB: with brd-neg If you say that you had not reckoned with something, you mean that you had not expected it and so were not prepared for it.

[V P n] Giles had not reckoned with the strength of Sally's feelings for him.

2) PHRASE: n PHR If you say that there is someone or something to be reckoned with, you mean that they must be dealt with and it will be difficult.

This act was a signal to his victim's friends that he was someone to be reckoned with...

He will have to demonstrate that his Movement for Democracy is really a force to be reckoned with in Algerian politics.


English dictionary. 2008.

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