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1 bumper car

1 collisional orogeny

2 mountain building as a result of continents colliding

1 concentration (a pair-matching game)

1 lit. to have one's nose rubbed in the dirt

2 fig. to meet with a sharp rebuff

1 to try one's luck

2 to leave sth to chance

1 collision in which only one party is at fault

1 a blind cat finds a dead mouse (idiom)

2 blind luck

1 lit. an egg colliding with a rock (idiom)

2 fig. to attack sb stronger than oneself

3 to overrate one's abilities

1 to meet with a rebuff

1 to collide with one another

1 to knock sth over

1 to hit a wall

2 (fig.) to hit a brick wall

3 to hit a snag

4 to have the door slammed in one's face

1 (coll.) to scam sb by setting up an "accident" in which one appears to have sustained damage or injury caused by the scam victim, then demanding compensation (variations include putting "expensive" porcelain in a place where it is likely to be knocked over by passers-by, and stepping into the path of a slow-moving car)

1 to meet force with force

2 painstaking

1 doorstop

1 to run into

2 to come upon

3 to meet

1 to meet

2 to run into (sb)

3 to get together (with sb)

1 to run into

2 to meet (unexpectedly)

3 to bump into