Set upon
Set upon verb - Assail or attack on all sides: "The zebra was beset by leopards".
Try
Try verb - To subject (a personal quality or faculty) to often excessive stress.
Both terms in one sentence
- The Brave Little Toaster: The scene where the appliances try to figure out how to set upon their journey to the city.
Source: "I Know What We Can Do" Cut -
A fight breaks out as they try to decide who should turn back first to let the other cross, before they are set upon and chained together by bounty hunters.
Source: Fire-Forged Friends - The characters on Earth in particular take their condition as a mystery to be solved and try to escape the definite confines that are set upon them even as they are able to teleport around the world freely.
Source: Ontological Mystery
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