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under protest

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by A. Makkai, M.T. Boatner, J.E. Gates

[under protest] {adv. phr.}

Against one's wish; unwillingly.

* /"I'll go with you all right," she said to the kidnapper, "but I want it clearly understood that I do so under protest."/

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Source: A Dictionary of American Idioms

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