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Put up a fight

To offer some form of resistance to an attack.

📖 Definitions of "Put up a fight"

verb
  1. 1

    To offer some form of resistance to an attack.

    "She put up a fight when the mugger tried to steal her purse."

  2. 2

    To protest or make a fuss, especially over a proposed course of action.

    "Their youngest son always put up a fight when it was bedtime."

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