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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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This is genuine, dyed-in-the-wool sport, this is, and all the boys are yelling their heads off for their favorite.
Yes, were dyed-in-the-wool fans, admitted Bob, and told the operator something of their radio work.
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.
You're the only seasoned, all around, dyed-in-the-wool, genuwine cowpuncher in the whole outfit.
Although excellent entertainment for dyed-in-the-wool fans, the sameness of this series was pointed up when a really imaginative director was put to work on one of them.

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