run into flak AusE potocznie

A woman here can run into flak even trying to speak.

Early in the morning session, however, the freeze ran into flak.

Montgomerie, no stranger to controversy himself, has also run into flak.

And his habit of apologizing as soon as his utterances run into flak is creepy.

A young bride runs into flak from the ghost of a mistress past at Manderley, the estate of her husband (Olivier).

He promptly ran into flak from Senator Tom Harkin, a Democrat from Iowa who has a big voice in the Labor Department budget.

Mr. Young ran into flak last year for customizing a costly pork project for the Alaska outback that was dubbed the Bridge to Nowhere.

The Cable News Network, which began its coverage of the Persian Gulf war with exciting accounts of the first air raids on Baghdad and has attracted a large audience with carpet coverage, has run into flak from officials, competitors and viewers.