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View synonyms for stick to one's guns

stick to one's guns



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Hold fast to a statement, opinion, or course of action, as in The witness stuck to her guns about the exact time she was there . This expression, originally put as stand to one's guns , alluded to a gunner remaining by his post. Its figurative use dates from the mid-1800s.

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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023

Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

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