Idiom
plant one's feet
Meaning
To insist on something firmly or with stubbornness.
Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Examples
“I plant my feet and refuse to change my mind.”
“When the manager asked him to work on Sunday, he planted his feet and said no.”
“Despite the intense pressure from the board to compromise, the director planted her feet, insisting that the original vision for the project remain unchanged.”
Examples
simple
“I plant my feet and refuse to change my mind.”
contextual
“When the manager asked him to work on Sunday, he planted his feet and said no.”
complex
“Despite the intense pressure from the board to compromise, the director planted her feet, insisting that the original vision for the project remain unchanged.”
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