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单词 stick-in-the-mud
例句 stick-in-the-mud
So for most of my freshman year, I remained a self-hating stick-in-the-mud. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z
“Maybe you shouldn’t be such a stick-in-the-mud. Come on, let’s scout around.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z
I have settled down here and gotten to be such a stick-in-the-mud I don’t even like to go out! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z
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. He Said, She Said, We Said, You Said 2020-04-08T04:00:00Z
Allen played a comically macho dad on Home Improvement for eight seasons, and he just began his sixth year of paying a similar reactionary stick-in-the-mud on Last Man Standing. Same role, different show: what happens when TV actors get stuck in a rut 2016-10-19T04:00:00Z
Even Alice, normally a stick-in-the-mud ingénue, is transformed here into something wild by Ms. Byrne, who makes it clear that the wayward Sycamore genes did not skip a generation. ‘You Can’t Take It With You,’ Handled Properly, Ages Well 2014-09-28T04:00:00Z
Did you feel like you were playing a feminist stick-in-the-mud? Jane Curtin Is Playing It Straight 2019-02-17T05:00:00Z
He was merely a square stick-in-the-mud who couldn’t deal with Batman doing the Batusi or falling for the lures of Catwoman or whatever nubile mod temptress who was thrown in his path that week. The Next Batman: Is John Blake the New Bruce Wayne? 2012-07-25T12:00:15Z
The way Yolanda sees it, Sam is the stick-in-the-mud who “stole” an important grant from under her nose. We could all use a laugh. These comedic romance novels deliver. 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z
Like the husband is super funny and the wife is a stick-in-the-mud. Robin Thede and her writers achieve peak comedy the Black women's way 2022-08-15T04:00:00Z
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.” Prince Philip, Husband of Queen Elizabeth II, Is Dead at 99 2021-04-09T04:00:00Z
I fear, in midlife, becoming a stick-in-the-mud, hesitant about — or resistant to — change. Taking the first ballet step in a midlife quest to dance in 'The Nutcracker' 2015-12-05T05:00:00Z
“I’m a stick-in-the-mud. Lord knows how much junk is rattling around in my brain.” Touring the Bronx With Lloyd Ultan, a Borough Institution 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z
Did you hear that old stick-in-the-mud, Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, might lose? Washington Grapples With Midterms, Eric Holder and Secret Service Screwups 2014-09-29T04:00:00Z
It also plunges stick-in-the-mud farmers into an unfamiliar world of “big data” and privacy battles. Digital disruption on the farm 2014-05-22T04:00:00Z
The old-school, stick-in-the-mud types were all for crowning Cabrera for all of those traditional stick-in-the-mud reasons, like more home runs and runs batted in and leading his team to the playoffs. Leading Off: M.V.P. Voters Believe Their Eyes — Leading Off 2012-11-16T16:26:02Z
Cecil had no patience with those stupid, stick-in-the-mud, timid people who can see no further than their own noses. The Beckoning Hand and Other Stories 2012-01-10T03:00:17.100Z
You’ll never settle down to a stick-in-the-mud existence with old Morgan. Imprudence 2011-12-01T03:00:19.303Z
"Now, Captain Barton, don't be a stick-in-the-mud, but give us reasons." The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
Yet Nintendo, with its stick-in-the-mud behavior, has managed to prevail in the video game industry. Is Nintendo Smart to Ditch Smartphones? 2011-07-12T20:15:27Z
He has also said that he must have been sort of a stick-in-the-mud when my mother wanted more excitement in her life. Alice Munro: “Gravel.” 2011-06-20T04:00:00Z
And do you know what that old stick-in-the-mud did? Back at School with the Tucker Twins 2011-05-14T02:00:10.887Z
But what other way is there in this extraordinarily stick-in-the-mud world?' Non-combatants and Others 2011-04-11T02:00:11.563Z
The captain's twinkling black eyes gleamed with fun when Tommy assured him artlessly that the 'busman was "just such a dear old stick-in-the-mud" as he was. The Girl Crusoes A Story of the South Seas 2011-11-03T02:00:16.647Z
Just take a squint at that stick-in-the-mud of a tutor! . . . The Secret of Sarek 2011-01-14T03:00:49.903Z
But I cannot escape the feeling that there might be a case for giving Football League fans more of what they want, which is – and here I am being an old-fashioned stick-in-the-mud again – football. Martin Kelner: Spare us this phone-in flim-flam 2010-08-22T23:05:00Z
Well, you old stick-in-the-mud," said my companion, "what are you looking so disgruntled about? A Top-Floor Idyl
Thought we might get some fun out of it, hunting for that ‘buried treasure’ and now, up pops that old stick-in-the-mud and claims the whole business. Dorothy on a House Boat
She was a broad-minded woman, and able to steer successfully between being a crank or faddist on the one hand, or a "stick-in-the-mud" on the other. Loyal to the School
Everybody in the swamp is such an old stick-in-the-mud. Collector's Item
Zureda, something of a stick-in-the-mud and in no wise given to pleasures, had never wanted to take her to any dances, not even to a masquerade. Their Son; The Necklace
"He's such a dear old stick-in-the-mud," I heard. A Top-Floor Idyl
Came to visit you, old stick-in-the-mud," grinned Mado, "and to try and persuade you to join me. Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930
F. But for the wailings of McClellan and his stick-in-the-mud do-nothing strategy, McDowell, Banks and Fremont would have marched to Richmond from north, north-west, and west, when we already reached Stanton, and could take Gordonsville. Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863
You've outstripped old stick-in-the-mud; but I always knew you would lead me the way though.... The Manxman A Novel - 1895
Everyone got into a sort of stick-in-the-mud mood, and one felt it was only kind to stir them up. A harum-scarum schoolgirl
Fleetingly, he thought of Tom ... poor old stick-in-the-mud Tom, working away in his grubby little Mars-bound laboratory, watching bacteria grow. Gold in the Sky
“Carry on with yer yarn, an’ don’t mind me, old stick-in-the-mud!” The Island Treasure
No one wants to be where the stick-in-the-mud Rights are, either--that is, no one except them. The Red Conspiracy
Nevertheless, even in the matter of its plants and trees, Australia must still be considered a very old-fashioned and stick-in-the-mud continent. Falling in Love With Other Essays on More Exact Branches of Science
I suppose you didn't hear the news, you are such an old stick-in-the-mud. The Book of the Bush Containing Many Truthful Sketches Of The Early Colonial Life Of Squatters, Whalers, Convicts, Diggers, And Others Who Left Their Native Land And Never Returned
"They begun to call us heroes an' old stick-in-the-mud just about the same time," resumed Stover, with a chuckle. A Country Doctor and Selected Stories and Sketches
"Well, old stick-in-the-mud," said Orde as, at the end of two days, the men thawed out in a smoking car, "ducks enough for you?" The Rules of the Game
"But, you stick-in-the-mud of an honest man," shouted Don Luis, angrily, "if we let this opportunity slip shall we ever find another?" The Teeth of the Tiger
‘Oh, mother will be happy anywhere; and how can I stay with these stick-in-the-mud people, just like what I have read about?’ More Bywords
But there were many of the same ingredients—the exaltation of games, hero-worship, rows, the clever new literary mistress who made all the stick-in-the-mud other mistresses angry…. Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract
On "Phoenix," America's cleverest hackers would supposedly shame the telco squareheads out of their stick-in-the-mud attitudes, and perhaps convince them that the Legion of Doom elite were really an all-right crew. The Hacker Crackdown, law and disorder on the electronic frontier
Well, old stick-in-the-mud, you haven't changed a particle in fifteen years! In the Midst of Alarms
They have all been to Rome, the Ducconians are the only stay-at-home, stick-in-the-mud family in this valley. Andivius Hedulio Adventures of a Roman Nobleman in the Days of the Empire
HARRY: Speaking of your stick-in-the-mud artist, as you romantically call your first blunder, isn't his daughter—and yours—due here to-day? Plays
Only were the other mistresses at girls' schools stick-in-the-mud? Potterism A Tragi-Farcical Tract
Lord Carford is an old stick-in-the-mud, or he would have prevented that. The Point of View
But there were also a number of stick-in-the-mud statesmen,—old gentlemen who had been saying the same thing, thinking the same things, doing the same things, for forty years. Theodore Roosevelt
Nothing would be done on either side but stick-in-the-mud warfare and those trench-raids and minings which had no object except "to keep up the spirit of the men." Now It Can Be Told
Crowbillon is simply tired of a stagnant stick-in-the-mud firm, and made the change on his own account.  Diary of a Nobody
“Come along, you stupid old stick-in-the-mud,” cried Tom, “or the fisherman will catch you!” The Water-Babies
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