à contre-courant — meaning in English
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English meaning
- upstream adj Positioned or moving against the direction a river or current flows.
Senses
à contre-courant is used for these senses in English:
- against the grain (idiomatic) Contrary to what is expected; especially, of behavior different from what society expects.
- upstream In a direction against the flow of a current or stream of fluid (typically water); upriver.
- upstream Against the current.
upstream — full definition
- adj Positioned or moving against the direction a river or current flows.
- adj Happening earlier in a process, or influencing what comes later.