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

They have met heaven knows how, and will part heaven knows where, on their way to the sea; but they let themselves go with the tide.

From Phantom Fortune, a Novel by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

"We go with the tide at sunup," said Marr.

From The Ice Pilot by Leverage, Henry

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.

He saw the inclination of his people, and that he must go with the tide.

From White Fire by Oxenham, John