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stick-in-the-mud
[stik-in-thuh-muhd]
noun
someone who avoids new activities, ideas, or attitudes; old fogy.
stick-in-the-mud
noun
informala staid or predictably conservative person who lacks initiative or imagination
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of stick-in-the-mud1
Example Sentences
Like the husband is super funny and the wife is a stick-in-the-mud.
The way Yolanda sees it, Sam is the stick-in-the-mud who “stole” an important grant from under her nose.
In 1961 he criticized British industry as a bastion for “the smug and the stick-in-the-mud,” calling failures in manufacturing and commerce “a national defeat.”
There’s no question that Cary Grant’s serpentine charm wins out over Ralph Bellamy’s stick-in-the-mud decency, but not everyone is “sold American” on Walter Burns.
So for most of my freshman year, I remained a self-hating stick-in-the-mud.
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