circle the wagons

The pioneers circled the wagons and camped on its west bank.

"Circling the wagons, only in three dimensions instead of two."

They camped right on the road, circling the wagons for protection.

"People were circling the wagons," one former Drexel employee said.

Instead the Jets appear to be circling the wagons and looking for positive signs.

"We may be doing him a disservice by circling the wagons," says Harry.

Thus the committee report has the feel of an exercise in circling the wagons around the one man Apple can't do without.

The elites who really rule Russia have already begun circling the wagons.

In the corridors, his fellow senators were circling the wagons.

Using dialect has been one way of circling the wagons.