against the grain

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Roget 256: against the grain.   

Roget 603: unwillingly etc. adj.; grudgingly, with a heavy heart; with a bad, with an ill grace; against one's wishes, against one's will, against the grain, sore against one's wishes, sore against one's will, sore against one's grain; invita Minerva [Lat.]; a contre caeur [Fr.]; malgre soi [Fr.]; in spite of one's teeth, in spite of oneself; nolens volens etc. (necessity) 601 [Lat.]; perforce etc. 744; under protest; no etc. 536; not for the world, far be it from me.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 704: with difficulty, with much ado; barely, hardly etc. adj.; uphill; against the stream, against the grain; d rebours [Fr.]; invita Minerva [Lat.]; in the teeth of; at a pinch, upon a pinch; at long odds, against long odds.    ... meer laten zien

Roget 708: against, versus, counter to, in conflict with, at cross purposes.    against the grain, against the current, against the stream, against the wind, against the tide; with a headwind; with the wind ahead, with the wind in one's teeth.    in spite, in despite, in defiance; in the way, in the teeth of, in the face of; across; athwart, overthwart^†; where the shoe pinches; in spite of one's teeth.    though etc. 30; even; quand meme [Fr.]; per contra.    ... meer laten zien

Moby betekeniswoordenboek: a rebours, a reculons, abhorrent, against the tide, against the wind, anticlockwise, arear, arsy-varsy, ass-backwards, astern, at cross-purposes, at daggers, at daggers drawn, at issue, at odds, at variance, at war with, athwart, away, back, backward, backwards, by contraries, contra, contrarily, contrariously, contrariwise, conversely, counter, counterclockwise, cross, cross-grained, dislikable, displeasing, distasteful, eyeball-to-eyeball, fro, hindward, hindwards, in confrontation, in flat opposition, in hostile array, in opposition, in reverse, intolerable, inversely, just the opposite, mislikable, nay rather, odious, on the contrary, oppositely, otherwise, per contra, quite the contrary, rather, rearward, rearwards, retrad, to the contrary, topsy-turvy, tout au contraire, uncongenial, uninviting, unlikable, unlovable, unpleasant, up in arms, upside down, vice versa, widdershins, with crossed bayonets ... meer laten zien.

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