| 单词 | fly in the face of something |
| 释义 | fly in the face of somethingfly in the face of something OPPOSITE/REVERSEto be the opposite of what most people think is reasonable, sensible, or normal 违反某事〔指人们认为合理、正常的事〕 He likes to fly in the face of convention. 他喜欢和传统习俗对着干。 Examples from the Corpus fly in the face of something• Whatever the riddle is called, it flies in the face of 3,000 years of logical philosophy.• Neill triumphantly flies in the face of a long line of buffoon kings on film.• Eysenck's claim flies in the face of all the evidence.• I find this hard to believe since it flies in the face of all the principles of wrestling.• Anita Roddick has made a virtue of flying in the face of business convention.• It flies in the face of commitments made at the Earth Summit to reduce consumption.• But strong biological determinism flies in the face of experience.• Award-winning entertainment that flies in the face of gravity lands in Tucson for two nights only.• This flies in the face of the cautious nature of the Bush administration. → fly in the face of something at fly1(7) |
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