against (or with) the stream
Against (or with) the prevailing view or tendency: a world in which the demand for quality does not run against the stream...- He was a quick-witted, well-meaning man who went with the stream instead of having the vision and strength of judgment to stand out against it.
- They cannot help but drift with the stream of success-oriented culture, however unwilling they may be.
- The conception that a Marxist party has to swim against the stream and to fight against the prevailing forms of consciousness is entirely anathema to them.
See parent entry: stream