game to the backbone

adjective

Roget 604: resolved etc. v.; determined; strong-willed, strong-minded; resolute etc. (brave) 861; self-possessed; decided, definitive, peremptory, tranchant^†; unhesitating, unflinching, unshrinking^†; firm, iron, gritty [U.S.], indomitable, game to the backbone; inexorable, relentless, not to be shaken, not to be put down; tenax propositi [Lat.]; inflexible etc. (hard) 323; obstinate etc. 606; steady etc. (persevering) 604.1. earnest, serious; set upon, bent upon, intent upon.    steel against, proof against; in utrumque paratus [Lat.].    ... show more

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