buck the tide

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buck the tide (third-person singular simple present bucks the tide, present participle bucking the tide, simple past and past participle bucked the tide)

  1. Synonym of buck the trend
    • 2023 July 24, Ashifa Kassam, “Vox party’s hardline attitudes appear to have turned off Spanish voters”, in The Guardian[1], →ISSN:
      But it appears Spain bucked the tide, pointed out Jordi Évole, one of Spain’s best-known television personalities on the left.

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