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be set in your ways?? wht does it mean??
1- my father is too set in his ways to change
2-as you get older you tend to become more set in your ways
Jul 31, 2009 4:27 PM
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This is idiom. This mean to stay very strong on the views and to be conservative in thoughts and words.
Anyway, English isn't my native language. Maybe natives will add something.
July 31, 2009
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I would use this expression to describe someone's behavior e.g. My grandparents are very set in their ways, they like to do the same things at the same time every day.
Someone who is set in their ways doesn't like change and it is usually used to describe older people
July 31, 2009
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An expression meaning that certain aspects or traits of a person or people will stay the same and never change.
another idiom to express the same is "to de dyed in wool"
eg:If I didn't know any better, I'd say your family are dyed in the wool hard-core Christians.
July 31, 2009
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ı agree with your friends as far as ı understand from context this idiom means NOT TO TEND TO GHANGE
August 1, 2009
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It is almost the same as STUBBORN. It is a phrasal verb, which means you add something to a verb and that changes its meaning. "Set" means "fixed", so when cement hardens, it sets. That's why to be "set" in one's ways means to be difficult to change.
July 31, 2009
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