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set in one's ways, be
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Idioms and Phrases
Be inflexible, fixed in one's habits, as in She's too set in her ways to go out and buy a dog . This idiom uses set in the sense of “in a rigid position,” a usage dating from about 1300.Advertisement
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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