Catch Word #292 – Stick to your guns
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to Catchword, the Q-Lips vocabulary series where we teach you idioms, phrasal verbs, expressions, and more that will help build your English vocabulary and improve your English listening skills. Catchword is all about word power. And in today's lesson, we are going to teach you, and we is me and Indiana, by the way. I should say hello, Indiana. Hello, Indiana. How's it going?
Hey, Andrew. I'm well. How are you doing today?
I'm good. And in today's episode, everyone, we're going to teach you two English idioms that we can use to describe moments of persistence and refusal to change one's mind. Persistence. Persistence means like keep going, keep going. So these two expressions, which are stick to your guns and And double down, we use these idioms in these kinds of situations where we need to be persistent or when we refuse to change our minds. And sometimes they can be positive and sometimes they can be negative. We'll get into all of the details and explain them fully and give you some examples and teach you how to use them in your everyday speaking in just a moment. But before we get started with the lesson, let me tell you about the study guide for this episode.
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Yes.
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So first, let's start off with a visual to help remember this expression. Stick to your guns. So sticking to something is maybe staying close to or holding on to something. And of course, guns or weapons. So if you imagine somebody on the battlefield in a war, and they're fighting and it's getting a little dicey. The enemy is closing in, but they're deciding, all right, it doesn't matter. I'm going to fight and I'm going to keep shooting, right? I'm going to stay with my guns. I'm not going to flee. I'm sticking to my guns. So that person would be possibly persistent, like you said, persevering, or maybe a little stubborn. And you can use this expression coming from that imagery. This is an expression we use when we talk about somebody who's refusing to change their opinion, their plans, their decisions, especially in a difficult situation like here, in the example where this expression comes from.
You're in a war, right? Your life is on the line, but you're still sticking with your decision to fight. So if I stick to my guns, I'm staying with my decision about something, even if there's a lot of pressure on me.
Yeah. Excellent. Well said. So this word stick, the verb to stick, it's like something is sticky, right? Like a substance, maybe gum, you know, probably everybody has had the unfortunate experience of stepping on gum on the sidewalk and then it sticks to the bottom of your shoe, right? It's like when something is sticky and it's attached, that is this verb to stick. So in the literal sense, the imagery that you described, Indiana, you could imagine a soldier,
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