go with the tide
Example Sentences
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But General Vecchiarelli can do little, and he might even go with the tide, if some 400,000 Italian soldiers turn actively against the Germans.
From Time Magazine Archive
It is much easier to go with the tide than against it, and there are scientific tides as truly as there are tides in the fashion of dress.
From Science and Morals and Other Essays by Windle, Bertram Coghill Alan, Sir
The tide rises twenty-two feet in Ghijiga Bay, and to reach the lighthouse and settlement near the river, even with small boats, it is necessary to go with the tide.
From Overland through Asia; Pictures of Siberian, Chinese, and Tartar Life by Knox, Thomas Wallace
It is so much easier to go with the tide than against it, to shout with the crowd than to stand lonely and suspect in the midst of it.
From Leaves in the Wind by Gardiner, A. G. (Alfred George)
Partly it may have been due to his habit of refusing to go with the tide; of his declared hatred of any kind of a majority.
From Mrs. Fitz by Snaith, J. C.
