dyed-in-the-bone

Updated: May 28, 2025

Combating all this is the dyed-in-the-bone free trader, who points to the fact that free trade made England the richest of the Allies and gave her control of the sea. "How can a nation that is one huge seaport, and which lives by foreign trade, ever be a protectionist?" he asks. If he has his way we shall have to struggle harder for our share of universal business.

Isaac Frederick Marcosson - The War After the War