Carved in Stone

What Does "Carved in Stone" Mean?

"Carved in stone" is an English idiom. It means "something that is fixed, unchangeable, or permanent."

Here are three examples of the idiom "carved in stone" used in a sentence:

The schedule isn't carved in stone, but we'd like to stick to it as closely as possible.
Remember that these statistics are not carved in stone; they can change as we get more data.
Their agreement wasn't carved in stone, so they decided to revisit it at a later time.

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