to be under attack
to be criticized by a lot of people at the same time
to be under a lot of pressure
The president came under siege for his radical decisions.
The newspaper came under siege after they printed an article denouncing the recent attacks as a hoax.
Their corporate offices are under siege after their stocks plummeted last week.
Our company is under siege after it was discovered that our CEO had been embezzling from stockholders.
Their website is under siege from cyber terrorists.
There is no origin for this idiom
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definition
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