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Go native

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  1. 1
    To adopt the lifestyle or outlook of local inhabitants, especially when dwelling in a colonial region. idiomatic

    "[…]for St. Xavier's looks down on boys who ‘go native all-together.’ One must never forget that one is a Sahib, and that some day, when examinations are passed, one will command natives."

  2. 2
    Of a contractor or consultant, to begin working directly as an employee for a company and cease to work through a contracting firm or agency. idiomatic

    "[…] we had to stop putting job-hunting colonels in charge of AFPRO detachments in the plants. It almost always happened that they went native and began to represent the contractor rather than the government."

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