What does it realy mean??
"I have been up against tough competition all my life"
Means he don't love competition or he had been lived with competition ?? I don't realy get it.
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Walt Disney said that quote right?
It meant he had already faced all difficult problems to win the competition during his life time.
If you are up against a situation, a person, or a group of people, they make it very difficult for you to achieve what you want to achieve.
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He has had a hard life. People have been competing with him all the time. He has had to work hard.
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It means he has lived with difficult competition throughout his life. He doesn't tell us whether he liked it or not but only that in his life, the competition he has faced has not been easy.
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"To be up against X" means facing X as an opponent. There's a sense of challenge here.
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