run the gauntlet
to have to deal with a lot of people who are criticizing or attacking you:
Every day they had to run the gauntlet of hostile journalists on their way to school.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Experiencing and suffering
- afflict
- affliction
- almost/nearly die of sth idiom
- be a martyr to sth idiom
- be a victim of your own success idiom
- be devoured by sth idiom
- get the short end of the stick idiom
- get/have your fingers burned idiom
- go through sth
- grip
- hands-on
- hold
- ride
- run into sth
- sample
- seat
- sense
- underwent
- ups and downs
- writhe
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