By going against the grain and going to work nude, you've made yourself a laughing stock.

Get the thinkers out into the open like Vidal and Buckley, a really radical idea, against the grain.

For Nabiullina, the developments unpick almost a decade of work going against the grain of Putin’s increasing global isolation by opening up the economy.

In all ordinary processes of grinding, the friction of the rapidly revolving millstones against the grain, or even of the stones against each other, develops a large amount of heat, so that the crushed wheat comes from the stones quite hot

There simply was not enough grain in each elevator to satisfy the known claims against the grain.

Against the grain

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