stand your ground
C2 to refuse to be pushed backwards, or to continue in your beliefs in an argument:
The battalion stood its ground in the face of repeated attacks.
Clare stood her ground in the meeting and refused to be intimidated even when Michael got angry.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Strong-willed
- a firm hand idiom
- adamant
- adamantine
- aggressive
- an iron hand/fist in a velvet glove idiom
- fury
- go-getter
- going
- gutsy
- hard-boiled
- importunate
- pertinacious
- pigheaded
- purposeful
- pushy
- ravening
- recalcitrant
- will not take no for an answer idiom
- willful
- with guns blazing idiom
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