go with the tide
Example Sentences
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But General Vecchiarelli can do little, and he might even go with the tide, if some 400,000 Italian soldiers turn actively against the Germans.
From Time Magazine Archive
The first principle of the British constitution, however, is "keep moving," and "I would recommend you to go with the tide."
From Nuts and Nutcrackers by Lever, Charles James
The Santa Maria and the Pinta and the Nina are moored out in the copper- colored river, ready to go with the tide.
From Christopher Columbus by Byne, Mildred Stapley
We'll rest for a few minutes and then go with the tide round Pointe la Joue.
From Pearl of Pearl Island by Oxenham, John
Partly it may have been due to his habit of refusing to go with the tide; of his declared hatred of any kind of a majority.
From Mrs. Fitz by Snaith, J. C.
