VOCABULARY - IDIOMS

Circle the Wagons

Meaning:

To prepare as a group to defend against attack, adopt a defensive posture

Examples:

  • Guess people circle the wagons after something like this.
  • These are tough times for the family. We need to circle the wagons.
  • Yeah, it's time to circle the wagons, make sure we're available if she needs us.
  • Thus, the initial effort by police to circle the wagons and deny, in a united front, that the violations occurred has now deteriorated into finger-pointing among them.