| 单词 | fly in the teeth of |
| 例句 | Writing is an act of courage; with each word, a writer flies in the teeth of the howling storm. The violation of Elena Ferrante 2016-10-05T04:00:00Z Such nonsense flies in the teeth of opinion polls, which show that 85% of US Catholics approve of this pope. Happy birthday, Pope Francis – for God’s sake don’t retire | Paul Vallely 2016-12-17T05:00:00Z The homing bird must fly in the teeth of a strong west wind. Cavalry of the Clouds They deal with directly felt fitnesses between things, and often fly in the teeth of all the prepossessions of habit and presumptions of utility. The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy It's too darn serious a matter; you might almost say that it flies in the teeth of all the conventions, Hague and otherwise. The Stars and Stripes The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919 To fly in the teeth of English Puseyism, and risk such shrill welcome as I am pretty sure of, is questionable: yet at bottom why not? The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol. I |
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