flow, go with the flow, retch

摘索因卡詩一段寄 大埔事件"拆政府" 2013年8月18臺北凱道:

非豐祭而是人慾橫流之恆嘔
損益計算時但留殘渣棄佳釀
No feast but the eternal retch of human surfeit
No drinking but dregs at reckoning of loss and profit
---IKEJA, Friday, Four O'clock ( October '66) Idanre: & other poems (1967,p.49) by Wole Soyinka,

Do away with the urge to go with the flow and re-channel that energy “to things that you really believe in,” writes Miki Tsusaka, a senior partner and managing director at BCG.

retch

rɛtʃ/

verb

1. 1.

   make the sound and movement of vomiting.

   "the sour taste in her mouth made her retch"

   synonyms:

   gag, heave, dry-heave, reach, convulse, almost vomit, have nausea, feel nauseous; informalkeck "he was sick in the road and stayed there for several minutes, retching"

noun

1. 1.

   a movement or sound of vomiting.

   "with a sudden retch he vomited all over the floor"

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go with the flow

informal Be relaxed and accept a situation, rather than trying to alter or control it.