to be forced to deal with someone or something
to consider something important when you are making plans and so be prepared for it
If he threatens you again, he’ll have me to reckon with.
Napoleon had not reckoned with the severity of the Russian winter.
Yes, it was all there, this sexual pleasure, though now I must reckon with remorse, for we were careless.
reckons with
reckoning with
reckoned with
There is no origin for this phrasal verb
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