Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Thoroughgoing; out-and-out.
- adjective Dyed before being woven into cloth.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective thoroughly imbued; thoroughgoing; uncompromising; complete; unmitigated; through-and-through.
- adjective dyed before being spun or woven into cloth.
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- adjective Dyed before being formed into
cloth . - adjective idiomatic, figuratively Firmly
established in a person'sbeliefs orhabits ; deeplyingrained in thenature of a person or thing.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall, as a dyed-in-the-wool southerner, substitutes olive oil, while those posh Hairy Bikers suggest goose fat.
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Just as the dyed-in-the-wool racist fights against universal health care because black people could also benefit from it, the hard right would resist foreign assistance and investment in infrastructure like it was a stimulus check signed by President Obama himself.
David A. Love: Americans Would Doom an American Reconstruction Effort to Failure David A. Love 2011
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After the seventh inning stretch, only dyed-in-the-wool fans like me remained.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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Next thing you know she will become a dyed-in-the-wool Democrat like our 7-year old.
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After the seventh inning stretch, only dyed-in-the-wool fans like me remained.
Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks Dad Jack Canfield 2011
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In the real world, the 2012 election will be decided by independent voters, not dyed-in-the-wool conservatives, and Republicans need a candidate who will appeal to centrists.
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In other words, very rarely do you come across a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who also hunts, which is why the bulk of hunters are conservative.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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In other words, very rarely do you come across a dyed-in-the-wool liberal who also hunts, which is why the bulk of hunters are conservative.
Tom McIntyre Explains His Picks for our 2009 Hunting and Fishing Heroes and Villians Face-Off 2009
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Not to be outdone, Dean Clancy, a Tea Party health policy analyst, wrote that, "I fear it's not the brainy Ryan who has pulled off a coup, but rather the wily Wyden, a dyed-in-the-wool progressive who makes no secret of wanting single-payer, government-run health care."
Menachem Rosensaft: Ron Wyden: Forging Common Ground on Medicare Reform Menachem Rosensaft 2011
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The voters you describe sound less like the “center-right” and sound more like Limbaugh-loving dyed-in-the-wool GOP partisans who would never, ever vote for a Dem, whether s/he opposed Kagan or not.
The Volokh Conspiracy » Attempts to Defeat the Kagan Nomination, and Political Hardball 2010
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