set in one's ways, be

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.

Common Names:

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Nour	-	Arabic
ThỊ	-	Vietnamese
Veronika	vye-rah-NEE-kah (Russian), vee-rah-NEE-kah (Russian), ve-RO-nee-kah (German, Croatian)	Russian, Czech, Slovak, German, Hungarian, Bulgarian, Slovene, Croatian, Macedonian, Swedish, Norweg
Sollemnia	-	Late Roman
Menodora	-	Ancient Greek
Kristijonas	-	Lithuanian