against\ the\ stream

against\ the\ stream
• (swim) against the current
• (swim) against the stream
v. phr.
To do the opposite of what most people want to do; go against the way things are happening; struggle upstream.

The boy who tries to succeed today without an education is swimming against the stream.


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