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Stick to one's guns

verb

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Verb
  1. 1
    To persist in faithfully attending to cannons while under fire. dated

    "Capitan Beaulieu-de-Long and his first lieutenant were both killed, several guns dismounted, and many of the [French frigate] crew killed and wounded. . . . Nevertheless the French stuck bravely to their guns, while the flame of the cannonade illuminated the scene beneath the canopy of smoke."

  2. 2
    To maintain one’s position or viewpoint when faced with opposition. broadly, idiomatic

    "Ronald had stuck to his guns and refused me to the last."

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