Idiom of the Day April 20, 2021

📚dig your heels in

✍🏾Meaning

If you dig your heels in, you stubbornly resist something or refuse to change.

❕For example

🔺Even though the developer offered them more than their houses were worth, the owners dug their heels in and refused to sell up and make way for the office block.

🔺When their record company told the band to change their style and make more commercial music, the band dug their heels in and refused to change.

Origin: Probably related to the fact that if a person or an animal resists being pulled forward, the body will lean backwards and the heels will dig into the ground as the legs resist the forward motion.