keeping one's nose the grindstone (verb) keep one's nose to the grindstone: work doggedly
Sinonime: beatnik,
bohemian*, dissident,
freak*, heretical, heterodox,
hippie*, iconoclastic,
maverick, oddball, offbeat,
original, rebel, schismatic, sectarian, swinger,
unorthodox,
weird*
Antonime: conforming, conformist, obeying,
orthodox