going against the grain
Doing the opposite of what is requested
Man, I ask you to wear jeans, here you come in a suit, you always going against the grain!
Go against the grain
when you make life more difficult by acting against the wishes of others.
“So you just gon’ go against the grain and just go against everything that I just… I just told y’all not to ask me that shit when I got up in here.” -August Alsina
Going against the grain
To do something that can be deemed as not the social norm
‘Life is all about going against the grain’
‘I really went against the grain yesterday’
‘I really went against the grain yesterday’