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What does bred-in-the-bone mean?

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Adjective
  1. (idiomatic, of a habit, trait, belief, etc.) Firmly established or instilled; deep-seated.
  2. (idiomatic, of a person) Inveterate or habitual; long-standing.
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Antrim, bred-in-the-bone Republican conservative, has a proud patriotic tradition.
They had the kind of bred-in-the-bone manners that were unobtrusively the same for one and all.
Theodore Roosevelt was a thoroughgoing, bred-in-the-bone individualist, but not as the term is ordinarily understood.
Most people think that Halloween is a bred-in-the-bone American holiday.
But one can never reckon with real, bred-in-the-bone old-maidism.
Kingsolver's older daughter, Camille, who goes off to college midway through the experiment, is a bred-in-the-bone cook too.

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