fly in the face of

That move “seemed to fly in the face of market forecasts” but hasn’t, as of yet, led to a “collapse” in oil prices, he said.

That flies in the face of the traditional advice to delay Social Security as long as possible, until age 70 if you can.

This backsliding flies in the face of how much progress has been made to stop people from dying needlessly.

And so many of us are flying in the face of it, so I’m not really worried about that.

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