"a contracorriente" meaning in Spanish

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          "english": "Don't waste your time and energy swimming against the tide.",
          "text": "No pierdas tu tiempo y energía yendo a contracorriente.",
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        "against the current; against the flow (swim in the opposite direction to the river current)"
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          "text": "Los dos artistas integran una extraña pareja con actitudes casi virulentas, alentadas por la confrontación, lo que se traduce en decisiones a contracorriente: abandonar el proyecto durante siete años cuando gozaba de predicamento comercial, por ejemplo, o reinstaurarlo en una plaza tan notable como el Circo Price para presentar un nuevo disco que aún no verá la calle hasta dentro de tres o cuatro meses.",
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        "(by extension, idiomatic) swim against the current; swim against the flow; against the tide (go against prevailing opinion or thought); go against the grain"
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