go with the tide
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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
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But one must always go with the tide unless one is strong enough to stem it, and frankly I am not.
From The Price of Things by Glyn, Elinor
We'll rest for a few minutes and then go with the tide round Pointe la Joue.
From Pearl of Pearl Island by Oxenham, John
I expect," she said after a while, "that Mrs. Graham will once more tell us to let ourselves go with the tide and not worry.
From The Privet Hedge by Buckrose, J. E.
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)