"go against the grain" meaning in English

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      "form": "went against the grain",
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      "form": "gone against the grain",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His method certainly goes against the grain, but it is unquestionably effective.",
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        {
          "ref": "2024 September 5, Beth Gillette, “24 Fall Hair Colors Every Celebrity Is Asking for Rn”, in Cosmopolitan:",
          "text": "Blondes do have more fun, Mrs. [Kelly] Rowland!! Go against the grain this fall and opt for a fully opaque, bright-as-hell platinum dye job. Although it’s unexpected for a season filled with dark colors, the cool undertones are a masterful way to manipulate your way into a fall ’do while going lighter.",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To defy convention; to do something in a manner that is unusual or out of the ordinary."
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        [
          "convention",
          "convention"
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          "unusual",
          "unusual"
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        [
          "out of the ordinary",
          "out of the ordinary"
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        "(idiomatic) To defy convention; to do something in a manner that is unusual or out of the ordinary."
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        {
          "word": "against the grain"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "run counter"
        }
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      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "sense": "to defy convention",
          "word": "顛覆傳統"
        },
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "diānfù chuántǒng",
          "sense": "to defy convention",
          "word": "颠覆传统"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "to defy convention",
          "word": "olla epätavallinen"
        },
        {
          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "to defy convention",
          "word": "iść pod prąd"
        },
        {
          "code": "pt",
          "english": "to swim up against the tide; literally: to swim up against the current",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "to defy convention",
          "word": "ir contra a corrente OR nadar contra a maré"
        },
        {
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "to defy convention",
          "word": "a contracorriente"
        }
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  "word": "go against the grain"
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      "form": "goes against the grain",
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        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "going against the grain",
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        "participle",
        "present"
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    },
    {
      "form": "went against the grain",
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        "past"
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    {
      "form": "gone against the grain",
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        "participle",
        "past"
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    {
      "word": "against the grain"
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          "text": "Blondes do have more fun, Mrs. [Kelly] Rowland!! Go against the grain this fall and opt for a fully opaque, bright-as-hell platinum dye job. Although it’s unexpected for a season filled with dark colors, the cool undertones are a masterful way to manipulate your way into a fall ’do while going lighter.",
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      "glosses": [
        "To defy convention; to do something in a manner that is unusual or out of the ordinary."
      ],
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          "out of the ordinary",
          "out of the ordinary"
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        "(idiomatic) To defy convention; to do something in a manner that is unusual or out of the ordinary."
      ],
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "run counter"
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  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "sense": "to defy convention",
      "word": "顛覆傳統"
    },
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "diānfù chuántǒng",
      "sense": "to defy convention",
      "word": "颠覆传统"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "to defy convention",
      "word": "olla epätavallinen"
    },
    {
      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "to defy convention",
      "word": "iść pod prąd"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "english": "to swim up against the tide; literally: to swim up against the current",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "to defy convention",
      "word": "ir contra a corrente OR nadar contra a maré"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "to defy convention",
      "word": "a contracorriente"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go against the grain"
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