stick-to-your-guns

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1. idiomaticinformalRefusing to compromise, change one's mind, or abandon one's beliefs despite opposition or criticism; steadfast, resolute.

   Adds Bowles, "Billy Bob is a very ornery, stick-to-your-guns guy. If you tell him to do something, he's gonna go, 'Fuck you.'"

   2004, Peter Biskind, Down and Dirty Pictures, Miramax, Sundance, and the Rise of Independent Film, page 236

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   The stick-to-your-guns approach had made Silky Soul both a commercial and artistic triumph, and it's also a major asset on Back to Basics.

   1993, Andrew Hamilton, “Back to Basics Review”, in allmusic.com, archived from the original on 08 Jan 2013, people

   There seem to be two "general" categories of attitudes and belief systems among folks about divorce: (1) A live-and-let-live laissez faire approach that says, if its awful, get out (there's more fish in the sea); and (2) A stick-to-your-guns approach that says the marriage vows are for life, no matter what.

   1998 September 13, JLT_FTW, “Belief Systems”, in alt.support.divorce (Usenet)