nail one’s colours to the mast

nail one’s colours to the mast明确宣布并坚持自己的主张：That biologist never holds back his opposition against Darwin’s theory of evolution，he nails his colours to the mast.那位生物学家毫不隐瞒他反对达尔文进化论的意见，他明确宣布并坚持自己的这个主张。

• noncommissioned
• sodium antimonate
• antistatics
• set type
• i.f
• ibid.
• megastardom
• immune reaction
• Philomena
• swell-headness
• heeling
• nest egg
• snake-skin
• irritatedly
• atomic warheads
• inconditely
• spacing
• Parnassism
• acoustic wave amplifier
• teleprinter code
• bannerstone
• coalesce
• dress rehearsals
• imprudently
• dakotans
• qq.v.
• self-supports
• trapeziuses
• reprieve
• heptachords
• hyperfunction
• age-area hypothesis
• fight your way (through / past etc sb / sth)
• Universal Postal Union
• ethynylation
• percipiency
• go to blazes
• barycentral dynamical time
• high-hat cymbals
• be the perfection of
• peacockish
• dysuric
• Phycitinae
• perceptibly
• what's
• slot winding
• yellow warblers
• overbuilding
• lead monoxide
• chicken soups
• storm and stress
• halogen lamp
• gear sth to/towards sth
• R.I.P.
• dissatisfy with
• sannaite
• ciceronage
• strike alarm into
• metricates
• acknowledge the corn
• attention key
• make oneself useful
• english setters
• keep ... going
• house painters
• drupe
• make a profit on
• gutta-percha
• tie-up
• wean sb off / from
• Welsh corgis
• dispassionate
• vapor-pressure osmometer
• get a packet
• czarevitch
• physicianship
• bus location system
• keep a good table
• mainline
• champacs
• whole-coloured
• sottishnesses
• parcelling
• gaboons
• Stokes lines
• straighten out /up
• skim coat
• capriccio
• lunular
• mlrs
• spd.
• crystal headphones
• blind copies
• touchdown
• downbows
• clamshell blister packaging
• the sooner (…) the better
• pluggers
• legal action / proceedings
• put in for leave