Meaning:
To prepare as a group to defend against attack, adopt a defensive posture
Examples:
- Guess people circle the wagons after something like this.
- These are tough times for the family. We need to circle the wagons.
- Yeah, it's time to circle the wagons, make sure we're available if she needs us.
- Thus, the initial effort by police to circle the wagons and deny, in a united front, that the violations occurred has now deteriorated into finger-pointing among them.