set in one's ways, be



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.
See also: set

Common Names:

NameGenderPronouncedUsage
Suzannasoo-ZAN-əEnglish
Fri&Eth;Rik-Icelandic
Arethousa-Greek Mythology
Zdenko-Slovak, Slovene, Croatian
Sibyllazi-BUY-lah (German)Greek, German, Swedish, Late Roman, Late Greek
Lera-Russian, Ukrainian