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stick-to-your-guns

stick-to-your-guns adjective: refusing to compromise, change one's mind, or abandon one's beliefs despite opposition or criticism; steadfast, resolute.

Adjective

stick-to-your-guns (comparative more stick-to-your-guns, superlative most stick-to-your-guns)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) Refusing to compromise, change one's mind, or abandon one's beliefs despite opposition or criticism; steadfast, resolute.
    • The stick-to-your-guns approach had made Silky Soul both a commercial and artistic triumph, and it's also a major asset on Back to Basics.1993, Andrew Hamilton, “Back to Basics Review”, in allmusic.com, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2013, people
    • There seem to be two "general" categories of attitudes and belief systems among folks about divorce: (1) A live-and-let-live laissez faire approach that says, if its awful, get out (there's more fish in the sea); and (2) A stick-to-your-guns approach that says the marriage vows are for life, no...1998 September 13, JLT_FTW, “Belief Systems”, in alt.support.divorce (Usenet)

Forms of stick-to-your-guns

comparativemore stick-to-your-guns
superlativemost stick-to-your-guns

Questions about stick-to-your-guns

What does stick-to-your-guns mean?
Stick-to-your-guns means refusing to compromise, change one's mind, or abandon one's beliefs despite opposition or criticism; steadfast, resolute.
What part of speech is stick-to-your-guns?
Stick-to-your-guns is an adjective.

Words near stick-to-your-guns in the dictionary

  1. stick-tight
  2. stick-tights
  3. stick-to-it-iveness
  4. stick-to-itiveness
  5. stick-to-itness
  6. stick-to-your-guns
  7. stick-up
  8. stick-ups
  9. stick-welded
  10. stick-with-it-ness
  11. stickability

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