OBSTINATE AS A MULE

obstinate as a mule: translation

*stubborn as a mule & *obstinate as a mule

Cliché very stubborn. (*Also: as \obstinate as a mule.) •

I tried to convince Jake to go to the doctor, but he's as stubborn as a mule.

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For four years, Henry pestered his parents to let him learn the trumpet. They tried to talk him into some other, quieter instrument, but he was stubborn as a mule, and now he has a trumpet.