buck the tide

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, →ISSN:

     But it appears Spain bucked the tide, pointed out Jordi Évole, one of Spain’s best-known television personalities on the left.

• May be avoided as a mixed metaphor.