Usually means: Maintain position despite opposition.
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  1. stick to one's guns: Merriam-Webster
  2. stick to one's guns: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. stick to one's guns, stick to one's guns: Collins English Dictionary
  4. stick to one's guns: Wiktionary
  5. stick to one's guns, stick to ones guns: Dictionary.com

Definitions from Wiktionary (stick to one's guns)

verb:  (dated, military, of gunners) To persist in faithfully attending to cannons while under fire.
verb:  (idiomatic, by extension) To maintain one’s position or viewpoint when faced with opposition.


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