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dyed-in-the-wool
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
dyed-in-the-wool
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Allen is a dyed-in-the-wool New Yorker.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ But even a dyed-in-the-wool extravert will sometimes choose to behave more demurely.
▪ He was, however, a hack, a dyed-in-the-wool Fleet Street man.
▪ Stahl belongs to that dyed-in-the-wool amateur breed who follow the sun not for money but for fun.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
dyed-in-the-wool

dyed-in-the-wool \dyed-in-the-wool\ adj.

  1. thoroughly imbued; thoroughgoing; uncompromising; complete; unmitigated; through-and-through.

  2. dyed before being spun or woven into cloth.

    Syn: yarn-dyed.

Wiktionary
dyed-in-the-wool

a. 1 (context of textiles English) Dyed before being formed into cloth. 2 (context idiomatic figuratively English) Firmly established in a person's beliefs or habits; deeply ingrained in the nature of a person or thing.

Usage examples of "dyed-in-the-wool".

Main Street in what is quaintly called Old Bellevue, with all my Denny Regrade, dyed-in-the-wool Seattleite prejudices still firmly intact.

Sadly his Aunt Edwina was inflexible and sour, tense and standoffish, a dyed-in-the-wool snob whose basic values were quite alien to him.

The driver, a sergeant by the name of Giscard, was at least six feet three in height, burly, red faced, tight mouthed and, even to the cold, insolent eyes, was the conceptualized epitome of the dyed-in-the-wool tough cop.

The most dyed-in-the-wool rock-music haters ended up boogying in the living room to the endless golden gassers that Wally trotted out when everybody got blind drunk enough to look back upon the late fifties and early sixties as the plateau of their lives.