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What does dyed-in-the-wool mean?

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Adjective
  1. (textile) Dyed before being formed into cloth.
  2. (idiomatic, figuratively) Firmly established in a person's beliefs or habits; deeply ingrained in the nature of a person or thing.
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And I heard you say in your previous speech that you are a dyed-in-the-wool liberal.
The net result is that he is considered by some to be a dyed-in-the-wool Marxist-Leninist masquerading as a liberal reformer, and by others as a liberal reformer in the guise of a Marxist-Leninist, neither of which is true.
In thought it is a piece of dyed-in-the-wool old fogyism, but in form and literary style it is vigorous, jaunty, and amusing.
You're the only seasoned, all around, dyed-in-the-wool, genuwine cowpuncher in the whole outfit.
He was a dyed-in-the-wool abolition Republican and took the Boston Transcript for forty-six years.
This is genuine, dyed-in-the-wool sport, this is, and all the boys are yelling their heads off for their favorite.

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