be set in your ways
Definition
› to do the same things every day and to not want to change those habits: As people get older, they often become set in their ways.Narrow-minded
(Definition of be set in your ways from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- be wearing blinkers idiom
- blinkered adjective
- hidebound adjective
- illiberal adjective
- incestuous adjective
- intolerance noun
- intolerant adjective
- myopic adjective
- narrow-minded adjective
- parochial adjective (LIMITED)
- petty adjective
- prim adjective
- prissy adjective
- short-sighted adjective (THOUGHT)
- small-minded adjective
- strait-laced adjective
- unreconstructed adjective
- unthinking adjective
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