hidebound: [16] The term hidebound was originally applied to cattle so emaciated that their skin (or hide) was dry and stiff and clung closely to their bones. The idea of being trapped immovably inside one’s skin had led by the early 17th century to the meaning we are most familiar with today: ‘set immovably in one’s opinions, narrow-minded’.
hidebound (adj.)
1550s, from hide (n.1) + past tense of bind (v.). Original reference is to emaciated cattle with skin sticking closely to backbones and ribs; metaphoric sense of "restricted by narrow attitudes" is first recorded c. 1600.
例文
1. The economy was hidebound by public spending and private monopolies.
経済は公共支出と私有独占によって硬直化している。
2.The men are hidebound and reactionary.
それらの人々は頑固で反動的である。
3.You will never change their ideas.They are far too hidebound .
彼らの意味を変えることはできません。彼らはあまりにも杓子定規だからです。
4.Whole world the children with 70 hidebound %lives in this area.
世界中の栄養不良児の70%がこの地域に住んでいる。
5.Grange chairman explanation says this pig as a child hidebound ，raise deadlocked.