Old habits die hard.
Without googling or checking reference resources, what do you think this proverb means?
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This proverb means that it is hard to break routines: if you have kept doing something for ages, it really takes some effort to stop doing it
Yes Katrin, very good.
This proverb means that it’s difficult to change a way of behaving which someone has had for many years.