buck the trend

present singular third person bucks the trend · participle present bucking the trend · participle past bucked the trend · past bucked the trend

1. idiomaticTo go against the norm or the current stand of the main population; have a differing opinion from the majority.

   Party has been relegated to near-irrelevance as Spain bucks European trend of shift towards far right[.]

   2023 July 24, Ashifa Kassam, “Vox party’s hardline attitudes appear to have turned off Spanish voters”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

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   Incidentally, I'm not sure you're bucking the trend so much as going along with it; FTM crossplay is getting pretty popular, although you see more women going for bishounen and visual-kei genderfucky stars than anything else.

   2001 May 22, Wednesday, “Re: 'There are only 500 REAL anime fans in the UK'”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet), message-ID <-6y*A5OWo@news.chiark.greenend.org.uk>

   However, one region bucking this trend by combatting the current deficiencies in skills development while simultaneously addressing sector demand is the West Midlands.

   2021 November 17, Davie Carns, “Addressing the skills gap”, in RAIL, number 944, page 62

   Synonyms: buck the tide, go against the grain