| 词汇 | stick to one-s guns |
| 词源 | stick to one’s guns. It seems sure that this expression was born with some fort or ship being attacked, but though it may be military in origin it is first recorded, as late as 1839, in a pop- ular novel called Ten Thousand a Year, the words put in the mouth of a civilian named Mr. Titmouse. |
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