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bound and determined
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  • The town decided something had to be done; Mr. Conner said he knew who each and every one of them was, and he was bound and determined they wouldn't get away with it, so the boys came before the probate judge on charges of...  (source)
    bound and determined = determined
  • Momma and I are very worried because there're so many things that can go wrong to a young person and Byron seems bound and determined to find every one of them.  (source)
    bound and determined = very firm in purpose
  • He was bound and determined to eat smack on the dot at five, even though I told him he should come over here and eat with all of us.†  (source)
    bound and determined = firm in purpose and/or has a strong unconscious desire (to do something)
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  • I thought he was just bound and determined to save me.†  (source)
    bound and determined = firm in purpose and/or has a strong unconscious desire (to do something)
  • That, at least, was the position of the powerful multiterm congressman from that district who was bound and determined to keep industry where it was supposed to be.†  (source)
  • Well, if you're bound and determined to try to do something constructive, I suppose I should go ahead and help you.†  (source)
  • She was bound and determined to get her way about something —just to spite Pa.†  (source)
  • She took her coat from the closet and put it on so painstakingly that it seemed she was bound and determined to irk him, and then she lifted her purse down from the closet shelf.†  (source)
  • Well if you're bound and determined to back out on our agreement I guess there's nothing I can do to stop you.†  (source)
  • But as for me, I'm bound and determined not to accept the existence of any such monster till I've dissected it with my own two hands.†  (source)
  • Anatole seemed to be getting ants in his pants but was still bound and determined to argue with Father.†  (source)
  • The Horvath had geeked to giving up the maple syrup but they were bound and determined, to the point of battle, to hold on to the heavy metal mines in Russia and South Africa.†  (source)
  • She was bound and determined to run off, and sometimes I had to threaten her with catastrophe just to keep her in check.†  (source)
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