Against the grain
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- Preventing a smooth, level surface from being formed by raising the nap of the wood or causing larger splinters to form ahead of the cutting tool below the cutting surface.
- Contrary to what is expected; especially, of behavior different from what society expects.
- By going against the grain and going to work nude, you've made yourself a laughing stock.
- Unwillingly, reluctantly; contrary to one's nature.
- It went much against the grain with him
- 1608, William Shakespeare, Coriolanus
- Say, you chose him / More after our commandment than as guided / By your own true affections, and that your minds, / Preoccupied with what you rather must do / Than what you should, made you against the grain / To voice him consul: lay the fault on us.
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