| 释义 |
Be inflexible, fixed in one's habits, as in She's too set in her ways to go out and buy a dog. This idiom uses set in the sense of “in a rigid position,” a usage dating from about 1300. Words nearby set in one's ways, bebescribble, beseech, beseem, Beseleel, beset, set in one's ways, be, besetting, beshow, beshrew, Besht, beside The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. |