0 If someone is dyed-in-the-wool, or has dyed-in-the-wool opinions, they hold those opinions strongly and will not change them:
If one takes 100 dyed-in-the-wool criminals aged 30, one finds that they cease to recidivate at the rate of 2½ per cent, per annum.
I may be regarded as dyed-in-the-wool in my thinking on this subject.
Here you have an acute controversy between two lots of dyed-in-the-wool, true-blue planners about what is and what is not good planning.
I am not a dyed-in-the-wool opponent of the clause.
Perhaps the local elections that have been taking place will also bring in some changes and introduce people who are less dyed-in-the-wool.
Only a dyed-in-the-wool bureaucrat could believe that anyone could be taken in by that.
We shall not have to be too dyed-in-the-wool and think that something is not worth trying.
I am not a dyed-in-the-wool, blue water, type.
