ragaszkodik a társadalmi hagyományokhoz

• to cotton on to sy, to cotton to sy

• to hold by, to hold on to sg, to hug, to insist, to insist on sg, to insist that, to insist upon sg, to keep to, to persist, to stand upon

• to assert one's rights

• to stand on ceremony

• to maintain the respectabilities

• to be insistent that sg shall be done

• he won't bate a yot