"go against the grain" meaning in English

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes against the grain",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going against the grain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went against the grain",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone against the grain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> against the grain"
      },
      "expansion": "go against the grain (third-person singular simple present goes against the grain, present participle going against the grain, simple past went against the grain, past participle gone against the grain)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with non-redundant manual transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His method certainly goes against the grain, but it is unquestionably effective.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To defy convention; to do something in a manner that is unusual or out of the ordinary."
      ],
      "id": "en-go_against_the_grain-en-verb-o4YSESIj",
      "links": [
        [
          "defy",
          "defy"
        ],
        [
          "convention",
          "convention"
        ],
        [
          "unusual",
          "unusual"
        ],
        [
          "out of the ordinary",
          "out of the ordinary"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To defy convention; to do something in a manner that is unusual or out of the ordinary."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "against the grain"
        }
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "run counter"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "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"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/En-au-go_against_the_grain.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "go against the grain"
}

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "goes against the grain",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "going against the grain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "went against the grain",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gone against the grain",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "go<goes,,went,gone> against the grain"
      },
      "expansion": "go against the grain (third-person singular simple present goes against the grain, present participle going against the grain, simple past went against the grain, past participle gone against the grain)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "against the grain"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English idioms",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English terms with audio links",
        "English terms with usage examples",
        "English verbs",
        "Mandarin terms with non-redundant manual transliterations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "His method certainly goes against the grain, but it is unquestionably effective.",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To defy convention; to do something in a manner that is unusual or out of the ordinary."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "defy",
          "defy"
        ],
        [
          "convention",
          "convention"
        ],
        [
          "unusual",
          "unusual"
        ],
        [
          "out of the ordinary",
          "out of the ordinary"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) To defy convention; to do something in a manner that is unusual or out of the ordinary."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-go against the grain.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/5/5e/En-au-go_against_the_grain.ogg/En-au-go_against_the_grain.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/5/5e/En-au-go_against_the_grain.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "run counter"
    }
  ],
  "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"
}