Usage of "stiff backbone"

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Usage of stiff backbone in английском

Or maybe she'd been born with that stiff backbone and circumstances had only reinforced it. 
 Tough customer: a novel 

You've got to keep a stiff backbone. 
 Frank Merriwell's Chums 

You must keep a stiff upper lip, a stiff backbone; you must forget the wishbone and the envious heart. 
 Evening Round-Up / More Good Stuff Like Pep 

She had an inquiring mind-perhapsexperimental would be the better word for it-abundantself-confidence and a good stiff backbone. 
 Mary Wollaston 

Somewhat earlier than usual he is losing the fanciful capricious qualities and settling down into the stiff backbone of the nation. 
 The Plain Man and His Wife 

But the monotheism of his race was too deeply ingrained in him, and so he kept 'a stiff backbone' and 'bowed not down.' 
 Expositions of Holy Scripture / Second Kings Chapters VIII to En... 

Aye, money; kegs and kegs of shining trade dollars, aft in the lazaret, to be had for the taking by lads with stiff backbones. 
 The Blood Ship 

"No man," says the Russian proverb, "can rise to honour who is cursed with a stiff backbone." 
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Meanings of stiff backbone in английском

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