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stick-in-the-mud
[f. vbl. phr. to stick in the mud: see stick v.1 11 b.]
Contemptuously used for: A helpless or unprogressive person; one who lacks resource or initiative.
1733Gen. Evening Post 15–17 Nov. 2/1 George Fluster, alias Stick in the Mud, has made himself an Evidence, and impeached the above two Persons. 1733Country Jrnl. 15 Dec. 2/1 James Baker, alias Stick in the Mud, and Francis Ogilby [were convicted]. 1861Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. x, This rusty-coloured one is that respectable old stick-in-the-mud, Nicias. 1886W. H. Mallock Old Order Changes I. 280 She is such an old stick-in-the-mud.
attrib.1880St. James's Gaz. 23 Oct. 12 He was none of your humdrum, stick-in-the-mud, oldfashioned practitioners. 1886Stevenson Kidnapped v, What a pleasure it was to get on shore with money in his pocket..and surprise what he called stick-in-the-mud boys.
Hence stick-in-the-muddish a.
1936M. Mitchell Gone with Wind xxviii. 481 It wasn't hidebound and stick-in-the-muddish like the older towns and it had a brash exuberance that matched her own. 1959A. Salkey Quality of Violence x. 158 He's slow and easy and a little ‘stick-in-the-muddish’. |