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Discover LudwigThe phrase "flies against" is not commonly used in written English and may be considered awkward or incorrect in certain contexts
It could be used in a metaphorical sense to describe something that opposes or challenges another thing, but clarity is essential. Example: "The bird flies against the wind, struggling to maintain its course."
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It's like flies against the windshield.
Talk of this is painful and flies against the zeitgeist.
It flies against everything that is decent and right".
"This flies against every fibre of me knowing how the business works.
It also flies against the prevailing headwinds of individualism, nationalism and a narrow understanding of self-preservation.
That, again, flies against the conventional wisdom that the best way to change careers is to retreat to an ashram and contemplate one's navel.
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Surely nobody in Washington is proposing to fly against Assad, as we flew against Qaddafi.
"You are going to fly against rabbits?" he said.
Construction continued through the second century, when its cannonballs flew against pirates and Englishmen, and the third century, when the cannonballs flew against pirates and Dutchmen.
Lawsuits flew against several rappers, and a form of cultural expression virtually disappeared.
Steve Yeager drove in the go-ahead run with a sacrifice fly against John.
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