swim upstream | Idiomator

Meaning: (idiomatic)To opt for adifficultcourse of action when asimplerorsaferalternative is available; to make anunwisedecisionagainstsoundadvice.I told my daughter to get her hair dyed at a salon, but she had toswim upstreamand do it herself. Now it's a mess.

Examples:

EN: If this refrigerator gets more fish in it it'll swim upstream and spawn all by itself.
ES: Si metes más pescado en esta nevera... se irá nadando río arriba y empezará a desovar.
EN: - Don't swim upstream, Darrin... unless you wanna lay an egg.
ES: - No nades contracorriente, Darrin a menos que quieras fracasar.
EN: All you do is walk 2 miles to the river and swim upstream another 10.
ES: Sólo hay que caminar tres kilómetros hasta el río y nadar río arriba otros quince.
EN: You buying? - Does a pepperoni swim upstream?
ES: - ¿Nadan los salchichones rio arriba?
EN: Always gotta swim upstream.
ES: Siempre nadan corriente arriba.
EN: Bill, salmon swim upstream to mate and die.
ES: Los salmones remontan la corriente para aparearse y morir.
EN: You can't back up, unless you're a salmon, then you swim upstream, but... I don't think it's a human thing.
ES: No puedes levantarte, salvo que seas un salmón y puedes nadar contra corriente. No creo que eso sea algo humano.
EN: I am still waiting for the fish I had for lunch to stop brying to swim upstream.
ES: Todavía estoy esperando que el pescado que almorcé deje de nadar corriente arriba.
EN: I suggest we not swim upstream.
ES: Le sugiero que no nademos contra la corriente.
EN: Sometimes I worry that all the damn horseback riding I did out in the West, bouncing up and down on the hard saddles might have made it so my salmon don't swim upstream the way they're supposed to.
ES: Me preocupa que tanto montar a caballo en el oeste, arriba y abajo sobre la dura montura, evite que mis salmones naden río arriba como deben.
EN: His salmon don't swim upstream.
ES: Eso es. Sus salmones no nadan río arriba.
EN: All we gotta do is jump up over that 100-foot waterfall, swim upstream 20 miles, get the sheriff on the phone, he liked us, I remember, and he'll send out a rescue boat.
ES: Sólo debemos saltar la cascada de 30 m... ..nadar contra la corriente y llamar al comisario. Le caímos bien, lo recuerdo. Él nos mandará un bote de rescate.
EN: Watch the fish try and swim upstream.
ES: Observar como los peces intentaban remontar la corriente.
EN: Sometimes you have to swim upstream, son.
ES: A veces hay que nadar contra la corriente.
EN: - You, on the other hand, swim upstream.
ES: - Por otro lado Vd. nada a contracorriente.

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