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go against

verb

  1. to be contrary to (principles or beliefs)
  2. to be unfavourable to (a person)

    the case went against him

鈥淐ollins English Dictionary 鈥 Complete & Unabridged鈥 2012 Digital Edition 漏 William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 漏 HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Idioms and Phrases

Oppose, be in conflict with, as in Does this legislation go against their best interest? [c. 1600] Also see against the grain .
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The intelligence agency that made the classification found AfD's "prevailing understanding of people based on ethnicity and descent" goes against Germany's "free democratic order".

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Still, I went against City in their last home game, against Aston Villa, and I was wrong.

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The resolution was condemned by Democrats, who said the resolution goes against science and years of study by federal wildlife officials.

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The order, she said, 鈥渦ndermines decades of progress and goes against a large body of research that shows that punitive, exclusionary discipline does not work.鈥

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鈥淚t鈥檚 a socialist move that goes against the American Dream,鈥 said Nallely De Jesus, vice president of a company that runs five supermarkets in the Bronx.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from 亚洲网紅露点 Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 漏 Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage庐 Idioms Dictionary copyright 漏 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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go aftergo against the grain