bucking the trend
Swimming against currents
Bucking the trend means going against the prevailing direction or pattern.
When most things move one way, something bucking the trend moves the opposite way: While most retailers struggled this quarter, the bookstore chain bucked the trend with record sales.
The image comes from a bucking horse resisting its rider's control.
- originalityNovel creative quality
- countercultureRejection of mainstream values
- rebellionDefiance of established power
- individualismDoctrine of personal independence
- lone wolfSelf-reliant individualist
defiance · contrarianism · ingenuity · dissent · nonconformity · unconventionality · thinking outside the box · undervaluation · activism · anti-establishment · resistance · pioneering · opposition · status quo · boldness · swimming upstream · disruption · reform
- swimming upstreamsalmon run, spawning, fish ladder, migration, current
bucking the trendgoing with the flow
Accepting situations without resistance
conforming · falling in line · jumping on the bandwagon · toeing the line · following suit
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