Contrary to natural feelings, disliking the start of gentle showery weather (7,3,5)
I believe the answer is:
against the grain
'contrary to natural feelings disliking the start of gentle showery weather' is the definition.
I don't know anything about this answer so I can't tell whether it can be defined by this definition.
'contrary to natural feelings disliking the start of gentle showery weather' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite understand how this works, but
'contrary' could be 'against' and 'against' is located in the answer.
'weather' could be 'rain' (rain is a kind of weather) and 'rain' is found in the answer.
This may be the basis of clue (or it may be nonsense).
Can you help me to learn more?
(Other definitions for against the grain that I've seen before include "Thus saw deal" , "Following the difficult route" , "like GM protesters?" , "Unnatural" , "contrary to natural inclination" .)