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stick-in-the-mud

[ stik-in-thuh-muhd ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

stick-in-the-mud

informal.
a staid or predictably conservative person who lacks initiative or imagination

First recorded in 1725–35

To tell the truth, my third share of the old Stick-in-the-Mud is gone.

Sotto voce he remarked to Scraggs: "I see him slippin' a three hundred dollar hawser, eh, Scraggsy, old stick-in-the-mud?"

I suppose you didn't hear the news, you are such an old stick-in-the-mud.

Now that's just the kind of fine old crusted pig-headed Conservativism that's kept this the stick-in-the-mud Country it is!

"They begun to call us heroes an' old stick-in-the-mud just about the same time," resumed Stover, with a chuckle.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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