attitude : Idioms & Phrases

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defensive attitude

  • noun an attitude of defensiveness (especially in the phrase `on the defensive')
    defensive.
WordNet

mental attitude

  • noun a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways
    attitude.
    • he had the attitude that work was fun
WordNet

To strike an attitude

  • to take an attitude for mere effect.
Webster 1913

To strike an attitude, To strike a balance

  • . See under Attitude, and Balance.
Webster 1913