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patriot
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be a [Londoner/patriot/politician etc.] through and through  also be [French/good/honest etc.] through and through
if someone is a Londoner etc. or is French etc. through and through, they behave in a way that is typical of such a person and that is the most important part of their character He always managed to say the right thing. He was a politician through and through. She never really settled in England. She was French through and through.
See know through and through
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be an [artist/patriot/professional/etc.] to your fingertips

if you say that someone is an artist, patriot, professional etc. to their fingertips, you mean that they behave in a way which is completely typical of such a person, and it is the most important part of their character Mark, a professional to his fingertips, insisted that we should make proper joints, not simply nail the pieces of wood together.
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About 150 Canadian state prisoners were sent to Van Diemen's Land and New South Wales, including almost 60 French Canadians known as les patriotes transported for involvement in the Lower Canada rebellion.
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Furthermore, Omer al-Bashir is akin to the dangerous Warlord Thomas Lubango Dyilo, the alleged founder of Union des Patriotes Congolois accused of war crimes.
Old habits still die hard among Sudan ruling party by Sudan Tribune (Sudan)
The relatively low-intensity Ituri conflict in the north-east has cost some 80,000 lives in fighting between the Front des Nationalistes et Integrationnistes (FNI) and the Union des Patriotes Congolais (UPC).
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