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单词 against the grain
释义

against the grain

Contrary to the natural inclination or feeling of someone or something: it goes against the grain to tell outright lies...
  • Time after time, he's undertaken initiatives which have gone against the grain of public opinion.
  • When did you last hear a politician genuinely appeal to our higher nature, go against the grain because what they believed in was simply the right thing to do?
  • I've decided to go against the grain and not have any mixed drinks tonight.
From the fact that wood is easier to cut along the line of the grain
See parent entry: grain
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