dyed-in-the-wool

Nothing has pleased me so much, in a long time, as to see him such a dead-in-earnest, dyed-in-the-wool officer as he is now.

You're the only seasoned, all around, dyed-in-the-wool, genuwine cowpuncher in the whole outfit.

Just to think of the nerve of him chasing the genuine dyed-in-the-wool chief out into the cold and taking his place!

But he was, doubtless, an eccentric though an experienced and dyed-in-the-wool socialist who had lectured over half the globe.

"O, those dyed-in-the-wool football fiends don't care for a little thing like that," said Dick.