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It is hard to change one's essential nature (idiom). You can't change who you are. · Can the leopard change his spots? (Jeremiah 13:23)

本性难移
běn xìng nán yí
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Synonyms
old habits are hard to change (idiom)积习难改jī xí nán gǎito continue in one's own way (idiom)我行我素wǒ xíng wǒ sùto be one's old self (idiom) · to be unchanged · (derog.) to be stuck in one's ways依然故我yī rán gù wǒ
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