swim with the tide

swim with the tide
(swim with the tide (тж. swim down the tide))
плыть по течению; см. тж. go against the tide

...this is quite her own theory - no one has suggested it to her. Everybody else negatives it. For once she's not swimming with the tide. (A. Christie, ‘A Murder Is Announced’, ch. 8) — ...это собственная теория мисс Баннер, никем ей не подсказанная. Все считают эту теорию вздором. Первый раз в жизни мисс Баннер плывет против течения.


Большой англо-русский фразеологический словарь. - М.: «Русский язык-Медиа».. 2006.

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  • swim with the tide — If you swim with the tide, you do the same as people around you and accept the general consensus. ( Go with the tide is an alternative form.) …   The small dictionary of idiomes

  • swim with the tide — go/swim with the tide go/swim against the tide to do the opposite of what most other people are doing. If you don t feel strongly about an issue, you may as well just swim with the tide …   New idioms dictionary

  • swim with the tide —    If you swim with the tide, you do the same as people around you and accept the general consensus. ( Go with the tide is an alternative form.)   (Dorking School Dictionary) …   English Idioms & idiomatic expressions

  • swim with the tide — swim against/with/the tide phrase to do or believe the opposite to other people the same as other people Thesaurus: to be similar to, or the same as, something or someonesynonym to be different from somethingsynonym …   Useful english dictionary

  • swim with the tide — go with the flow, do as everyone else does …   English contemporary dictionary

  • swim against the tide — swim against/with/the tide phrase to do or believe the opposite to other people the same as other people Thesaurus: to be similar to, or the same as, something or someonesynonym to be different from somethingsynonym …   Useful english dictionary

  • go with the tide — go/swim with the tide go/swim against the tide to do the opposite of what most other people are doing. If you don t feel strongly about an issue, you may as well just swim with the tide …   New idioms dictionary

  • go with the tide — go, swim, etc. with/against the ˈtide idiom to agree with/oppose the attitudes or opinions that most other people have Main entry: ↑tideidiom …   Useful english dictionary

  • swim with/against the tide — see ↑tide, 1 • • • Main Entry: ↑swim …   Useful english dictionary

  • The Princess of the Tide — (Russian: Морская царевна ) is one of the last ballads by Mikhail Lermontov, written shortly before his death in 1841. In it, the poet expounds upon his classic theme, best captured in his masterpiece Mtsyri, about the horrors of the loss of… …   Wikipedia

  • go against the tide — go, swim, etc. with/against the ˈtide idiom to agree with/oppose the attitudes or opinions that most other people have Main entry: ↑tideidiom …   Useful english dictionary


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