go against the grain
C2 If something goes against the grain, you would not usually do it because it would be unusual:
These days it goes against the grain to show too much respect for authority.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Unsuitable and unacceptable
- amiss
- beneath your dignity idiom
- beyond
- beyond the pale idiom
- delegitimize
- grain
- improper
- incorrect
- indecent
- ineligible
- infelicitous
- infra dig
- offend
- offend against sth
- raffish
- room
- square peg (in a round hole) idiom
- that will never do! idiom
- unfit
- vulgar
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