fly in the face of

Meaning: (idiomatic)To act in a manner highlycontraryto; tocounteractorcontradict.The new design is very edgy and certainlyflies in the face oftradition.2024October 30, Andy Comfort, “Can the Royal Mail trains keep on running?”, inRAIL, number1021, page60:DB Cargo is clearly upset by the Royal Mail decision. Not only will it lose a valuable customer, but thisflies in the face ofits own high-profile campaign, called Freight Belongs on Rail.

Examples:

EN: Who am I that I should fly in the face of providence?
ES: Señora, ha venido Don Juan.
EN: And, we dare to fly in the face of Providence and try to bring it closer to us.
ES: Y osamos enfrentarnos a la providencia para acercarlo a nosotros.
EN: I cannot fly in the face of 180 years of American history.
ES: No puedo pasar por alto 1 80 años de nuestra historia.
EN: I was forced to fly in the face of both friendship and admiration at the contract which bound me to marrying his daughter.
ES: Me obligaba a olvidarme por contrato de la amistad y la admiración uniéndome en matrimonio con su hija.
EN: You can't fly in the face of God, my girl.
ES: No puedes desafiar a Dios, hija mía.
EN: I know this must fly in the face of everything you've come to serve but I'm asking you to look through this to the other side
ES: Ya sé que lo que voy a pedirle atenta contra su disciplina... pero mire más allá de los hechos concretos y considere las consecuencias.
EN: Would you fly in the face of your father's authority?
ES: ¿Desobedecerías a tu padre?
EN: Well, I intend to fly in the face of such thinking, and damn it, I will succeed.
ES: Vale, pienso hacer volar en pedazos tales pensamientos, Y maldita sea, lo conseguiré.
EN: Doesn't that fly in the face of everything your father believed in?
ES: ¿No te avergüenza traicionar todo en lo que tu padre creía?
EN: Well, who am I to fly in the face of public demand, right?
ES: Bueno, ¿quién soy yo para negar la demanda pública, verdad?
EN: It's one thing to walk in uninvited, and it's another to fly in the face of house rules!
ES: Una cosa es entrar sin invitación, y otra cosa es burlarte de las reglas de la casa!
EN: Let's fly in the face of traditional face-to-face dining.
ES: Mandemos a la mierda la cena cara a cara tradicional.
EN: You got them in. Why do you want to fly in the face of their advice now?
ES: ¿Por qué quieres ignorar ahora sus consejos?
EN: Sometimes I do not. But one aspect of the experiment seemed to fly in the face of those quantum mechanical rules of randomness. Freeman:
ES: A veces no.
EN: However, it does seem to fly in the face of E Corp's economic policy...
ES: Sin embargo, sí parece ir en contra de la política económica del E Corp ...

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