swim with the tide

"Swimming with the tide," as Bill Black would put it.

For once she's not swimming with the tide.

And still he swam with the tide, feeling its febrile pull sucking at him.

Carey bobbed like jetsam, always awkward even though Ellwood was swimming with the tide.

Swim with the tide.

"Mr. Charles" is a politically incorrect swipe at the orthodoxy of any political, social or ethnic group that demands everyone swim with the tide.

"In March 2000, we were swimming with the tide, and everything seemed extremely easy," Mr. Scaglia said.

He had two choices: Try, like Fidel Castro in Cuba, to be more radical than the Soviets, or begin to swim with the tide.

Italian winemaking underwent profound changes in the last 40 years, but Mr. Mascarello refused to swim with the tide.

"You can swim with the tide and have peace in mind and soul, or you can thrust against it and be bruised and weary.

He would like to follow Phil but when he sees him defeated, he decides that discretion is the better part of valour and starts swimming with the tide.

The matter was that a great shoal--or, as they call it, a "school"- -of pilchards came swimming with the tide of flood, directly out of the sea into the harbour.

Fluctuating Death Rate A United Nations official said that a senior figure in General Aidid's group reacted to the American plan by saying: "We had better swim with the tide.

Judy kept her temperament under like a current and swam with the tides of the surface, taking refreshing dips only now and then which one traced in her eyes and her hair when she and Robert came back from leave.

It would really be quite remarkable if in a citizens' Europe one of the Member States in the heart of the European Union were not to swim with the tide, with all the resultant problems for international transport and traffic.

"I'm not blaming Mogshack for the phenomenon itWhat I detest about him is the way he's swum with the tide, exploited his influence for personal advanceWhat's good about the current phase of our socycle?

While hunting in midwater, fish swim both against and with the tide, although significantly more fish hunt when swimming with the tide (i.e. 'downstream'), suggesting some mechanical advantage is gained when hunting in this mode.