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stick-in-the-mud
noun as in unadventurous person
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To tell the truth, my third share of the old Stick-in-the-Mud is gone.
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Sotto voce he remarked to Scraggs: "I see him slippin' a three hundred dollar hawser, eh, Scraggsy, old stick-in-the-mud?"
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I suppose you didn't hear the news, you are such an old stick-in-the-mud.
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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!
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"They begun to call us heroes an' old stick-in-the-mud just about the same time," resumed Stover, with a chuckle.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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