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To be noticeably different from the way that a situation is developing generally, especially in connection with financial matters --Spending is down this season, but the tourist industry is managing to buck the trend, with thousands more holidays sold.
Urban dictionary defines the phrase thus:-
(v.) To differ in opinion to most others. To go against the grain, to be an exception to the rule.
--Critic No4 bucked the trend and praised the movie.
However, most English UK speakers - in my opinion - would not use the idiom thus. Here I would say 'proved the exception'. Others might differ.
Urban dictionary defines the phrase thus:-
(v.) To differ in opinion to most others. To go against the grain, to be an exception to the rule.
--Critic No4 bucked the trend and praised the movie.
However, most English UK speakers - in my opinion - would not use the idiom thus. Here I would say 'proved the exception'. Others might differ.
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