mugwump, against the grain, on a tear

China’s health-care industry is on a tear.

on a tear(idiomatic) Engaged in a continuous, fast-paced procession of actions or events, especially with favorable results. (idiomatic) In or into a protracted state of agitation, fury, or zeal.

on a tear - Wiktionary

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against the grain 反常合道 (彭淮棟)

在2018年2月24日的『懷念彭淮棟 （1953~2018）先生 —友情』討論會，

我們特別談淮棟在翻譯上的用心：

《論晚期風格：反常合道的音樂與文學》(On Late Style: Music and Literature Against the Grain by Edward Said) 麥田，2010

HC2k7英語學習Blog， etc, etc:

against [or contrary to] the [or one's] grain

• 気質［性分，性向］に反して［合わないで］
  • Haggling went against her grain [or against the grain with her].
  • 押し問答で値切るのは彼女の性に合わなかった.

2016.10.9

Federal Official at Center of the Health Care Tumult Has Gone Against the Grain

By ROBERT PEAR

Gary M. Cohen, who oversees the health exchanges set up under the Affordable Care Act, has been a punching bag for Republicans and has been chided even by some Democrats.

against the grain

contrary to the natural inclination or feeling of someone or something:it goes against the grain to tell outright lies

[from the fact that wood is easier to cut along the line of the grain]

Not using recycled paper goes against the grain

01/19/2008

2007.9.29

go against the grain

If something goes against the grain, you would not usually do it because it would be unusual or morally wrong:

These days it goes against the grain to show respect for authority.

MERGERS & ACQUISITIONS

A report by The New York Times that Warren E. Buffett is in talks to buy as much as 20 percent of Bear Stearns has raised the specter of the investor's 1987 deal to take a 12 percent stake in Salomon Brothers. But TheStreet.com suggested that a Bear investment would go against the grain for Buffett.

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mugwump

NOUN

North American 

• A person who remains aloof or independent, especially from party politics.

  • ‘Webster calls himself a Mugwump, but the mug and wump usually lean over the conservative side of the fence.’
  • ‘Whether they're Republicans, Democrats, mugwumps or what have you, they don't like it.’
  • ‘For the average citizen, if there's anything to be said of a mugwump, it's that he doesn't play favorites.’
  • ‘That silence speaks volumes about where many American farmers now sit on free trade; they are fence-sitting mugwumps.’
  • ‘I sit on the fence…a "mugwump" as my daddy would say.’

Origin

Mid 19th century: from Algonquian mugquomp ‘great chief’.