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stand one's ground

Idioms  

  1. Also, hold one's ground; stand fast. Be firm or unyielding, as in You've got to respect him for standing his ground when all the others disagree, or I'm going to hold my ground on this issue, or No matter how he votes, I'm standing fast. This idiom, dating from the early 1600s, originally was applied to an army holding its territory against the enemy, but was being used figuratively as well by the end of the 1600s.

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“What is defense? What is reasonable? When may one stand one’s ground and when must one retreat? And, when is a citizen entitled to step in as an aggressor in the name of the state?”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 13, 2021

Some fenced extremely well, and it was a pleasure to look on; and when one’s own turn came, all one thought of was how to stand one’s ground boldly, and how to fence well.

From My Autobiography A Fragment by Müller, F. Max (Friedrich Max)

But as it is, one's motto must be to stand one's ground bravely.

From The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume I by Hauptmann, Gerhart

But here is where one must firmly stand one's ground, and standing one's ground means independence from the family.

From Down with the Cities by Nakashima, Tadashi

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