you can't fight City Hall

English

Alternative forms

  • you can't fight city hall

Proverb

you can't fight City Hall

  1. (chiefly US, literal, figurative) Nothing can be done to change the situation, because it is a governmental decision or a similarly institutional decision (e.g., high-level corporate, senior military brass, dominant cultural norm).
    I see they're going to build the airport after all. I suppose you can't fight City Hall.
    • 1998, Sarah Schulman, Stagestruck: Theater, AIDS, and the Marketing of Gay America, Duke University Press, page 45:
      As Audre Lorde, my professor at Hunter College, told our class in 1982, "That you can't fight City Hall is a rumor being spread by City Hall."

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