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Mike
What do you think the expression "To Be Set In Stone" means in English?

"To be set in stone"

Here is an expression that I heard the other day, and I thought it was a common one that probably doesn't make it into the textbooks.  

Any idea what it means?  

Here's an example of it used in a sentence: ""I'm thinking about going out with some friends tonight, but nothing's set in stone yet."

Here is a video that explains the expression and provides a few examples.  

https://youtu.be/gXENIW99ZeU

<a href="https://youtu.be/gXENIW99ZeU" style="color: rgb(17, 85, 204); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: normal;">TO BE SET IN STONE</a>

I'm curious, do you (non-native English speakers) think that you would be able to get the meaning of this expression just from the context of a conversation if you heard a native speaker use it?  

Do you have a similar expression in your language?

I look forward to your responses.  :-)


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Set in Stones means that something is for sure going to happen. I don’t know where the term comes from but overall that is what it means
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This expression was born in Latin language as "lapidarius"...

And it mean "to be very difficult or impossible to change" as writing in Cambridge Dictionary.

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